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Winterson lives in Gloucestershire and London. Her radio drama includes the play Text Message, broadcast by BBC Radio in November 2001.

She is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. She is editor of a series of new editions of novels by Virginia Woolf published in the UK by Vintage. She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and also wrote "Great Moments in Aviation," a television screenplay directed by Beeban Kidron for BBC2 in 1994. 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 graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Interviews have been edited and condensed.Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. And so I think, “I’m entitled to ask for people’s time and attention for this book because it’s not about me.” One reason I like historical fiction is that it helps me feel like my ego isn’t a part of it: It’s like I’m a vessel for my protagonist’s story. I’m quite a self-critical person, and very aware of what other people think of me.

It was only when I started writing my first novel, “River Sing Me Home,” which is set in the Caribbean just after the abolition of slavery, that I found my voice. She’s very generous with her advice but, because she’s so independent, she’s also a big advocate of leaving me to deal with things myself. Even before I started reading her work, the way she spoke shaped the way I use words - carefully and deliberately. She was caught up in traffic behind an accident, and when she told the police she was attending a home birth, they mistook her for a midwife. Eleanor Shearer: Jeanette got a police escort so she could be there when I was born.