Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson (born 1959 in Manchester) is a British writer. She grew up in Lancashire with evangelical adoptive parents. Her award-winning debut novel, *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit*, was published when she was in her mid-twenties. She has written numerous novels as well as nonfiction and children’s books, including *Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?* and *Frankissstein*, which was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2019. Her literary honors include the Whitbread Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2006 and a Commander in 2018.