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Kathleen Winsor (October 16, 1919 - May 26, 2003) was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A romance novel is a literary Genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries

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Winsor was born October 16, 1919 in Olivia, Minnesota but raised in Berkeley, California. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Olivia is a city in Renville County, Minnesota, United States. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. [1] At the age of 18, Winsor made a list of her goals for life. Among those was her hope to write a best-selling novel. [2] Winsor graduated in 1938 from the University of California, Berkeley. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley [3] During her school years, she married a fellow student, All-American college football player Robert Herwig. An All-American "team" is an honorary Sports team composed of outstanding Amateur players those considered the best players of a specific season for College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies In 1937, she began writing a thrice-weekly sports column for the Oakland Tribune. The Oakland Tribune is a daily Newspaper published in Oakland California by the Alameda Newspaper Group, a subsidiary of MediaNews Although that job only lasted a year, Winsor later returned to the newspaper to work as a receptionist. She was fired in 1938 when the newspaper chose to trim their workforce. [4]

Winsor became interested in the Restoration period through her husband. The English Restoration, or simply The Restoration began in 1660 when the English monarchy, Scottish monarchy and Irish monarchy were restored Herwig was writing a paper for school on Charles II, and, out of boredom, Winsor read one of his research books. Charles II may refer to Charles the Bald (823 &ndash 877 king of the West Franks and Holy Roman Emperor Charles II of Naples (1248 [1]

Her husband joined the military at the outbreak of World War II and spent five years with the US Marines fighting in the Pacific theatre. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO was the World War II military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it a geographic scope [2] During that time, Winsor studied the Restoration period, claiming to have read 356 books on the subject. She began writing a novel based on her research. Her fifth draft of the novel was accepted for publication. The publishers promptly edited the book down to one-fifth of its original size. The resulting novel, Forever Amber, was 972 pages long. [1] A thousand-page saga, the novel frolicked through Restoration England and vivid images of fashion, politics, bedrooms and public disasters of the time, including the plague and the Great Fire of London. This article is about the Great Fire of 1666 For other great fires in London see Early fires of London or Second Great Fire of London.

While many reviewers "praised the story for its relevance, comparing Amber's fortitude during the plague and fire to that of the women who held hearth and home together through the blitzes of World War II", others condemned it for its blatant sexual references. [3] Fourteen U.S. states banned the book as pornography. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer The first was Massachusetts, whose attorney general cited 70 references to sexual intercourse, 39 illegitimate pregnancies, 7 abortions, and "10 descriptions of women undressing in front of men" as reasons for banning the novel. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The Massachusetts Attorney General is an executive officer of the Massachusetts Government. [1] The Hays Office also condemned the work, but within a month the movie rights had been purchased by Twentieth Century Fox. For the television broadcasting term please see Production code number. [3] The film, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Linda Darnell and Cornell Wilde, was released 1947. Otto Ludwig Preminger ( December 5[[ 906]]&ndash April 23[[ 986]] was an Austrian born Film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood Linda Darnell ( October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965) was an American film actress. Cornelius Louis Wilde ( October 13, 1915 &ndash October 16, 1989) was an American Actor and film director [1] Winsor denied that her book was particularly daring, and said that she had no interest in explicit scenes. "I wrote only two sexy passages," she remarked, "and my publishers took both of them out. They put in ellipses instead. In those days, you know, you could solve everything with an ellipse. "[1]

Despite its banning, Forever Amber was the most bestselling US novel of the 1940s. It sold over 100,000 copies in its first week of release, and went on to sell over three million copies. [1]

Made a celebrity by the success of her novel, Winsor found it unthinkable to return to the married life she had known with Herwig and, in 1946, they divorced. Ten days later, she became the sixth wife of the big-band leader and clarinetist Artie Shaw, despite the fact that two years previously Shaw had castigated his then-wife, Ava Gardner for reading such a "trashy novel" as Forever Amber. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky ( May 23, 1910 &ndash December 30, 2004) better known as Artie Shaw, was an American Jazz Ava Lavinia Gardner ( December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an Academy Award -nominated American actress [4][1] The marriage to Shaw ended in 1948, and Winsor soon married her divorce attorney, Arnold Krakower. That marriage likewise ended in divorce, in 1953. [4][1] In 1956 Winsor married for the fourth time, to Paul A. Porter, a former head of the Federal Communications Commission. Their marriage ended in 1975 with his death. [2]

Winsor's next commercially successful novel, Star Money, appeared in 1950, and was a portrait closely drawn from her experience of becoming a bestselling author. But in five subsequent novels, the last appearing in 1986 -- The Lovers, Calais, Robert and Arabella, Jacintha, and Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West -- she failed to make as much of an impact.

In 2000 a new edition of Forever Amber was published with a foreword by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE (born May 10, 1933) is an English Novelist Her 1979 debut A Woman of Substance, [4]

Winsor died May 26, 2003 in New York City. Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York [1]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Guttridge, Peter (May 29, 2003), “Obituary: Kathleen Winsor: Author of the racy bestseller 'Forever Amber'”, The Independent (London, England): 20 
  2. ^ a b c Rourke, Mary (June 3, 2003), “Novelist Kathleen Winsor; 'Forever Amber' was debut”, The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey): L08 
  3. ^ a b c Bernstein, Adam (June 1, 2003), “Kathleen Winsor, 83, 'Forever Amber' author”, The Seattle Times: A29 
  4. ^ a b c d Pfrommer, Katherine (May 29, 2003), “'Forever Amber' author dies at 83”, Oakland Tribune, <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20030529/ai_n14547130>. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 28 August 2007 

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