Jeanette Winterson published her first novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit at 25. In the years that followed, she often ...

“Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” is British writer Jeanette Winterson’s memoir about her rough childhood and her effort to make peace with it. Her often cruel and clearly disturbed adoptive ...

Fables, reminiscences, ghost stories, recipes — Jeanette Winterson’s collection of holiday-themed fiction and essays has a little of everything. As such, it’s a bit of a hodgepodge. But there are some ...

If nothing else returns you to the joyful belief in flying reindeer, skyfalls of snow, silent towns and open hearts, the curmudgeonly Santa in Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs will do the job. This ...

It would take a powerful and imaginative writer to create a character as imposing and memorable as Mrs. Winterson, a major player in Jeanette Winterson’s memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

For more than 30 years, Jeanette Winterson has been one of England’s most consistently ambitious, interesting and devil-may-care writers. Still best known for her debut, the autobiographical fantasy ...

I had no one to help me, but Jeanette Winterson helped me. In 2018 I won the Villa Sarkia writing residency, for which I had to travel to beautiful and brutally cold Finland. It was my first ...

It’s tough to read a book when you can’t get through a single page without wanting to underline a passage or two. In Jeanette Winterson’s memoir, “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?,’’ experiences ...

I first read the Jeanette Winterson novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit early in my second semester of college, which means it was also early in the year—February, say, or sometime in the awful ...

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If anyone can revivify the Frankenstein story, it’s adventurous, prize-winning British writer Jeanette Winterson. Frankenstein’s monster has been part of our culture for more than 200 years — Mary ...