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Jeanette Winterson

1959 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeanette Winterson is the 5,220th most popular writer (up from 5,663rd in 2019), the 4,151st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,372nd in 2019) and the 447th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Jeanette Winterson ranks 5,220 out of 7,302. Before her are Simon Gregorčič, Jean Prévost, Thomas Dekker, Karolina Světlá, Buchi Emecheta, and Victoire Léodile Béra. After her are Lukas Moodysson, Remco Campert, Dorji Wangmo, Jenny Erpenbeck, Wacław Potocki, and Charlotte Casiraghi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Jeanette Winterson ranks 304. Before her are César Évora, Mahammed Dionne, Dylan Baker, Roland Grapow, Thomas Allofs, and Timoleón Jiménez. After her are Rineke Dijkstra, Craig Armstrong, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Anne Smith, Fyodor Cherenkov, and Hiroshi Soejima.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jeanette Winterson ranks 4,152 out of 8,785. Before her are Alison Moyet (1961), Lawrence Stone (1919), Joyce Mansour (1928), Robert Kerr (1882), Thomas Dekker (1572), and William Rutter Dawes (1799). After her are Cædmon (657), Roy Bentley (1924), David Marshall Lang (1924), Edward Newton (1832), Eanflæd (626), and Nathalie Emmanuel (1989).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Jeanette Winterson ranks 447. Before her are Bob Shaw (1931), Edith Sitwell (1887), Brian Lumley (1937), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), Joyce Mansour (1928), and Thomas Dekker (1572). After her are Gilbert Adair (1944), Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), A. E. Housman (1859), Bruno Heller (1960), Alan Bennett (1934), and Aubrey de Grey (1963).

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