Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson's most popular book is Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit with 441 saves and an average rating of 3.64.

Author Bio

Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She broadcasts and teaches creative writing. She has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the St. Louis Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award twice. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages.

(Website: www.jeanettewinterson.com)

Authorship percentage indicates primary author status - excluding introductions, forewards and other contributions.

Series

2 primary books

Authored 100% of series

Tanglewreck

Tanglewreck is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Jeanette Winterson.

#1
Tanglewreck
#2
The Battle of the Sun

Series

18 primary books17 released books

Authored 6% of series

Canongate's The Myths

Canongate's The Myths is a 17-book series with 18 released primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson, and Victor Pelevin.

Series

6 primary books15 released books

Authored 7% of series

Hogarth Shakespeare

Hogarth Shakespeare is a 15-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Anne Tyler, Edward St. Aubyn, and Jeanette Winterson.

#5
Vinegar Girl
#6
Dunbar
The Gap of Time
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold
Shylock is My Name