Jeanette Winterson.

In a short amount of time, the British writer Jeanette Winterson established a special place for herself in the literary community. Her work began to meet with popular and critical success early on and would go on to be published in fourteen languages. After receiving a degree in English from Oxford University, she set out to look for editorial jobs but met with no success. At an interview for one such job, she told her interviewer stories about her life. The prospective employer encouraged her to write them down, resulting in her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).