Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist.
Born in Manchester, Winterson was educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Winterson's first novel was Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, written about her childhood (although she does not refer to it as wholly autobiographical), being raised by evangelical parents in the north of England. Oranges also delves into her relationship with two young girls and the consequences. Oranges became a successful BBC mini-series of the same name.
Much of her work is said to be written in the style of magic realism, although Jeanette herself denies this.
Other works include:
- Lighthousekeeping - novel published 2004
- The Powerbook - a plotless novel about a woman who writes the heroic stories of other people.
- Gut Symmetries - a strange combination of interpersonal relationships and physics.
- Art And Lies - the story of futuristic versions of Handel, a regendered Picasso, Sappho and Doll Sneerpiece, an eighteenth century whore.
- Written On The Body - an unnamed and ungendered narrator and an affair.
- Sexing The Cherry - set mainly in the 17th century; the story of an orphan and the 'dog woman' who rescues him.
- Art Objects - a series of essays on art.
- The World And Other Places - a collection of short stories.
- The Passion - set in Venice, this is the story of a young Frenchman and a woman with webbed feet who walks on water and cross-dresses.
- Boating For Beginners - a comic novel, based on a version of the Noah's Ark story. Out of print, and Winterson has shown no interest in republishing it.