This Mancunian lesbian loves the word “lover”: She describes herself as not only a plain “lover” but also a “book lover, opera lover and nature lover” to her 37,000 followers on Twitter and is well known for exploring “gender polarities” and “sexual identities” in her works. Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread prize with her first novel, Orange are Not the Only Fruit in 1985 and opened an organic deli and café named Verde’s beneath her Spitalfields home in the mid-1990s. In June 2014 she “sparked fury” by sharing pictures of a rabbit she killed and then cooked on Twitter and in 2009 she used the medium to propose to her partner, a psychoanalyst named Susie Orbach.

The Roll Call - WRITERS

1

Susie Steiner

2

Michael Russell (1933 – 2020)

3

Jackie Collins OBE (born Jacqueline Collins, 1937 – 2015)

4

Ann Barr (1929 – 2015)

5

Malcolm Gladwell

6

Merlin Holland

7

Josie Goodbody

8

Jeanette Winterson OBE

9

Anna Smith

10

Erika Leonard James (E. L. James)

11

Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982; AKA Richard Phillipps and Jack Dowland)

12

Mary Berry CBE

13

Seamus Heaney (1939 – 2013)

14

Katherine “Kate” Mosse OBE

15

Anne Dunhill

16

John Armstrong

17

Derek Blasberg

18

Alex Preston

19

Dominick Dunne (1925 – 2009)

20

Pippa Middleton

21

Richard Mason

22

Arthur Ransome (1864 – 1967)

23

Susan Hill CBE

24

Helena Matheopolous

25

Steven Berkoff

26

Aita Ighodaro

27

Julian Fellowes (The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford DL, also known as Julian Kitchener-Fellowes)

28

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