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Jeanette Winterson

1959 - Today

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Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeanette Winterson has received more than 1,059,641 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jeanette Winterson is the 5,664th most popular writer (down from 5,097th in 2019), the 4,373rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,000th in 2019) and the 493rd most popular British Writer.

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  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jeanette Winterson ranks 5,664 out of 7,302. Before her are Yuri Samarin, Layamon, Alfred Capus, Michael Shermer, Nikolay Rubtsov, and Jean-Paul Dubois. After her are Sapardi Djoko Damono, Yakov Polonsky, Paul Arène, H. A. Rey, Kevin Kelly, and Mario Luzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Jeanette Winterson ranks 343. Before her are Nirmala Sitharaman, Sérgio da Rocha, Alexei Kasatonov, Michael Scott, Juan Antonio San Epifanio, and Said Seyam. After her are Clint Howard, Alexander Belostenny, Jack Wagner, Penny Pritzker, Jennifer Granholm, and Amadou Gon Coulibaly.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jeanette Winterson ranks 4,373 out of 8,785. Before her are Jack Rowley (1920), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (1957), Ian McLagan (1945), Gemma Chan (1982), Tricky (1968), and Bruce Payne (1957). After her are Francis Willughby (1635), H. J. R. Murray (1868), Daisy Ridley (1992), Emma Kirkby (1949), Neil Bartlett (1932), and David Brabham (1965).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Jeanette Winterson ranks 493. Before her are Terence Rattigan (1911), John Gardner (1926), Richard D. Ryder (1940), Stephen Spender (1909), George William Russell (1867), and Hanif Kureishi (1954). After her are Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), James Hogg (1770), William Michael Rossetti (1829), Ernest Dowson (1867), Martin Litchfield West (1937), and Charles Allston Collins (1828).

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