![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel was an enormous success, winning the prestigious Whitbread Award for a First Novel, and was eventually adapted into a serial television program for the BBC-Winterson wrote the screenplay, and the program premiered in 1990 to even more buzz and acclaim. Shortly after graduating, Winterson published her first book-the autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit-in 1985, at just twenty-five years old. Winterson was raised to be a missionary, but after coming out as a lesbian at the age of sixteen, she was forced to leave home, live in her car, and work odd jobs to put herself through college at Oxford University. Born in Manchester to a seventeen-year-old factory worker and adopted by the Winterson family six months after her birth, Jeanette Winterson was raised by Pentecostal Evangelical Christian parents in Accrington, a manufacturing city in Northern England. ![]()
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