[go: up one dir, main page]

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson’s Followers (7,730)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Jeanette Winterson


Born
in Manchester, England, The United Kingdom
August 27, 1959

Website

Twitter

Genre

Influences


Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.

One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.

She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and al
...more

Jeanette Winterson isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

Jeanette Winterson: 2019 US tour for Frankissstein

Jeanette Winterson will tour the US to talk about her latest novel Frankissstein, from 13 October until 2 December. Visit groveatlantic.com/frankissstein for more details and to book tickets. 

The post Jeanette Winterson: 2019 US tour for Frankissstein appeared first on Jeanette Winterson.

Read more of this blog post »
13 likes ·   •  0 comments  •  flag
Share on Twitter
Published on September 25, 2019 06:25
Average rating: 3.84 · 331,467 ratings · 34,776 reviews · 123 distinct worksSimilar authors
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

3.73 avg rating — 92,946 ratings — published 1985 — 123 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Why Be Happy When You Could...

4.01 avg rating — 46,565 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Written on the Body

4.08 avg rating — 33,940 ratings — published 1992 — 78 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Passion

4.11 avg rating — 26,502 ratings — published 1987 — 136 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Sexing the Cherry

3.84 avg rating — 19,087 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Frankissstein: A Love Story

3.53 avg rating — 14,277 ratings — published 2019 — 49 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lighthousekeeping

3.87 avg rating — 10,138 ratings — published 1997 — 80 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Gap of Time

3.68 avg rating — 8,801 ratings — published 2015
Rate this book
Clear rating
Christmas Days: 12 Stories ...

3.94 avg rating — 7,703 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Weight: The Myth of Atlas a...

3.74 avg rating — 7,874 ratings — published 2005
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Jeanette Winterson…
Tanglewreck The Battle of the Sun
(2 books)
by
3.50 avg rating — 3,161 ratings

Related News

Need another excuse to go to the bookstore this week? We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the week. To create our...
27 likes · 9 comments
Her Favorite Books About Witches!: Powerful women command the pages of her haunting historical novel, The Daylight Gate, and cast spells in these...
42 likes · 33 comments
Quotes by Jeanette Winterson  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
Jeanette Winterson

“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
Jeanette Winterson

Polls

What book would you like to read for our October 2024 Group Read? The theme is Orange.

 
  18 votes 23.4%

The Martian by Andy Weir
Debut Novel, Science-Fiction, Space
 
  13 votes 16.9%

James by Percival Everett
Historical Fiction, Re-imagining, Race
 
  10 votes 13.0%

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult
 
  8 votes 10.4%

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Debut Novel, Historical Fiction, Family Saga
 
  8 votes 10.4%

There There by Tommy Orange
Debut Novel, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
 
  6 votes 7.8%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Dystopia, Satire, Classics
 
  6 votes 7.8%

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Contemporary, Coming-of-Age, Modern Classic
 
  5 votes 6.5%

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Künstlerroman, Queer, Classics
 
  2 votes 2.6%

The Orange Grove by Rosanna Ley
Contemporary, Romance, Holidays
 
  1 vote 1.3%

77 total votes
More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Challenge: 50 Books: Jayme's 50 in 2009 27 178 04 juin 2009 16:05  
Queereaders: This topic has been closed to new comments. * List of group reads 1 1568 31 oct. 2009 01:04  
Book lovers : A-Z Challenge 48 272 14 avr. 2010 18:59  
Chicks On Lit: Historical Novels 63 174 15 mai 2010 03:19  
The Seasonal Read...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Spring Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks 2717 2511 01 juin 2010 06:00  
The Seasonal Read...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Summer Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread) 3022 3288 01 sept. 2010 07:39  
SA Book & Challen...: 2010 A-Z Author Challenge 11 107 15 sept. 2010 17:48  
SA Book & Challen...: Books that made you cry (Spoilers) 35 45 11 nov. 2010 19:51  
College Students! : Required Reading That You Enjoyed 56 396 27 nov. 2010 18:07  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Jeanette to Goodreads.