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Read Jeanette Winterson's biography.
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England, and adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby mill-town of Accrington. As a Northern working class girl she was not encouraged to be clever.

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Profiles & Interviews

Vintage Living Text
I think I started writing before I could read because I wanted to write sermons, because I was driven by a need to preach to people and convert them which possibly I still am...

Le Monde
At daggers with routine, Jeanette Winterson likes nothing as much as subverting novelistic forms. To whit The Powerbook, a fantasy romance where the virtual comes to the aid of the real...

The Independent
Since her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, burst on to an unsuspecting world in 1985, Jeanette Winterson has learnt to soften some of her Northern edges, but her passion for opera is no affectation - it is as intense and heartfelt as her writing.

The Guardian
Jeanette Winterson took off like a meteor with her magical first novel but then fell to earth under the weight of vitriolic personal attack. Now, strength regathered, her passion for married women unquenched, she's launched herself into the cyber age with her new novel. Is she still the monstrous ego of legend?

The Times
Jeanette Winterson tells Rachel Campbell-Johnston why there's no time like now...

Wall Street Journal
Her intriguing Web site contains examples of her prolific journalism on literature, the arts and gender politics...