Books By Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson - Author

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One's Own, and other acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.

About the Introducer: JEANETTE WINTERSON is an English writer and the author of many novels, including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Sexing the Cherry. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester, and has won a Whitbread Prize, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and two Lambda Literary Awards. She is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.