JEANETTE WINTERSON (b. 1959) is an acclaimed British writer and journalist, and one of the most original and provocative voices to emerge during the 1980s.  She was made an officer of Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2006 "for services to literature".

Her first work, ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT (1985), is a semi-autobiographical novel about the relationship between a young lesbian and her adoptive mother, a religious fanatic, and won the Whitbread Prize as that year's best first novel.  THE PASSION (1987), her second work, is a picaresque historical novel set in Napoleonic Europe.

Winterson's subsequent fiction has explored the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities, and have won several literary awards.  These include SEXING THE CHERRY (1989), depicting an invented world set during the English Civil War and featuring the fabulous "Dog Woman" and the orphan she raises; WRITTEN ON THE BODY (1993), which won a Lambda Literary Award in the category of Lesbian Fiction; ART AND LIES (1994), about dehumanization and the absence of love in society; LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING (2004), an exploration of the nature of storytelling told through the tale of an orphaned girl sent to live in a Scottish lighthouse; THE STONE GODS (2007), a foray into science fiction; THE DAYLIGHT GATE (2012), set amid witch trials in 17th-century Lancashire; and THE GAP OF TIME (2015), a modern retelling of Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale".

A collection of short stories, THE WORLD AND OTHER PLACES, was published in 1998.  Her most recent work, CHRISTMAS DAYS (2016), brings together stories, animal fables, and urban fairytales interspersed with seasonal recipes from the author's celebrity friends.

Among her non-fiction is ART OBJECTS (1995), a collection of essays that cover various topics such as Gertrude Stein, modern literature, and lesbianism; and the vivid memoir WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? (2011), recounting the story of how a painful past rose to haunt her later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. 

The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:


                                == FICTION ==

* Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (Vintage, 1996)
* Battle of the Sun, The (Bloomsbury, 2009)
* Boating For Beginners (Vintage, 1990)
* Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days (Grove, 2016)
* Daylight Gate, The (Grove, 2012)
* Gap of Time, The (Hogarth, 2015)
* Gut Symmetries (Knopf, 1997)
* Lighthousekeeping (Vintage, 2005)
* Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Grove, 1985)
* Passion, The (Grove, 1987)
* PowerBook, The (Vintage, 2013)
* Sexing the Cherry (Grove, 1989)
* Stone Gods, The (Penguin, 2008)
* Tanglewreck (Bloomsbury, 2006)
* Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Canongate, 2005)
* World and Other Places, The (Vintage, 2000)
* Written on the Body (Vintage, 1994)


                              == NON-FICTION ==

* Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (Vintage, 1997)
* Art of Fiction, The (Paris Review, Winter 1997) -- PDF
* Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Knopf, 2011)

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