Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson is an British 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 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.
Books
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 1991
- Written on the Body 1998
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- Sexing the Cherry 2006

- The passion 1989
- The stone gods 2007
- Lighthousekeeping 2005
- Art Objects 1995

- Weight 2006
- Frankissstein
- Gut symmetries 1997
- Art and Lies 1994