LEAD: THE PASSION. By Jeanette Winterson. (Atlantic Monthly, $16.95.) ''It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock.'' ...

Postmodern, rarely precious or obtuse, almost recklessly playful, and often profound, Jeanette Winterson's early novels Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and The Passion found the author working with ...

Jeanette Winterson. Born in Manchester in 1959 and adopted into a family of Pentecostal evangelists, ... Since then she has written numerous novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, ...

Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel, “Lighthousekeeping,” is full of echoes and ripples. It evokes the spirit of Virginia Woolf, recalling “The Waves” and “To The Lighthouse.” It ...

It’s tough to read a book when you can hardly get through a single page without suppressing the urge to underline a passage. In Jeanette Winterson’s memoir, “Why Be Happy When You Could Be ...

Jeanette Winterson’s Complicated ... I’m telling you stories,” Winterson repeats in The Passion, ... “The Original,” Winterson gives a concise four-page summary of Shakespeare ...

The medieval alchemists had it wrong: the real treasure is beauty wrought from pain. And novelist Jeanette Winterson has the gift.. She will receive the St. Louis Literary Award on September 23 at ...

The absolute forefront of British writing, that's where Jeanette Winterson has stood for me ever since I read her early fiction, particularly her 1987 historical novel, The Passion.She's a writer ...

Born in Manchester and raised by her parents to be a missionary, over the last three decades Jeanette Winterson has established herself as one of the UK’s most celebrated authors. She has been ...

Michael Berkeley talks to award-winning novelist Jeanette Winterson, whose books include Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Written on the Body, The Passion, Lighthousekeeping and The Stone Gods.

Jeanette Winterson’s sentences become lodged in the brain for years, like song lyrics. “I’m telling you stories. Trust me.” “Why is the measure of love ...