Wonderful article in classic Winterson-style.
Excerpt:
When I published Oranges I was 25. Mrs Winterson said bitterly: “It’s the first time I have had to order a book in a false name.” So I knew I had won the story war between us, even though the name that I am known by, Jeanette Winterson, is itself a cover story for the other person, named but not known, the other self who was put in the crib by one mother and lifted out again, in a new version, by another mother.
What else could I be but a fiction writer?
Read the rest at the Times website.
Of Cabbages and Kings 