1. Kathleen Winsor is best known for her first work, the 1944 historical novel Forever Amber.
12 Facts About Kathleen Winsor
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Kathleen Winsor wrote seven other novels, none of which matched the success of her debut.
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At the age of 18, Kathleen Winsor made a list of her goals for life.
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Kathleen Winsor graduated in 1938 from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Kathleen Winsor was fired in 1938 when the newspaper chose to trim its workforce.
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Kathleen Winsor became interested in the Restoration period through her husband.
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Herwig was writing a paper for school on Charles II, and, out of boredom, Kathleen Winsor read one of his research books.
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Kathleen Winsor's husband joined the military at the outbreak of World War II and spent five years with the United States Marines fighting in the Pacific theatre.
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Kathleen Winsor began writing a novel based on her research.
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The marriage to Shaw ended in 1948, and Kathleen Winsor soon married her divorce attorney, Arnold Krakower.
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In 1956 Winsor married for the fourth time, to Paul A Porter, a former head of the Federal Communications Commission.
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Kathleen 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.