![]() ![]() She makes her home in the Cotswolds, just west of Oxford. In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Sedaris recounts losing his candy one childhood Halloween, touring and secretly coveting Anne Frank's old house, and drowning a mouse in the. She is married to the writer and psychoanalyst Susie Orbach, and she teaches at the University of Manchester. Her first husband was the owner of a Cleveland department store, which she became owner of once he died. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2006. Aunt Monie amassed her fortune through inheritance. ![]() A prolific writer, Winterson is the author of over twenty-five books of fiction, nonfiction, and literature for children. The novel was an enormous success, 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, when she was just 25 years old, Winterson published her first book, the autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. 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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