Claire, experiences an assortment of adventures-many of them sexual-at the court of Charles II until she eventually becomes the king's mistress. Its success has been attributed to its time of publication it was released toward the end of World War II while many husbands and lovers remained overseas. Like Margaret Mitchell 's Gone With the Wind a decade earlier, Forever Amber enthralled a generation of readers. This book, her first, was published in 1944 and became a bestseller in 1945, selling millions of copies in the United States and abroad. Herwig entered military service during World War II, she followed him to his various postings and occupied her time by reading over 350 books about English history before beginning her novel set in the period of the English Restoration, Forever Amber. Winsor married four times, always retaining her maiden name. She graduated from the University of California in 1938 and began a career as a reporter and receptionist for the Oakland Tribune in Oakland, California. Kathleen Winsor was born in Olivia, Minnesota, in 1919, the daughter of Myrtle Crowder Winsor and Harold Lee Winsor, who was in real estate. Selected writings įorever Amber (1944) Star Money (1950) The Lovers (1952) America, with Love (1957) Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West (1965) Calais (1979) Jacintha (1985) Robert and Arabella (1986).
Herwig, in 1936 (divorced 1946) married Artie Shaw (the bandleader), in 1946 (divorced) married Arnold Robert Krakower (a lawyer), in 1949 (divorced 1953) married Paul A. Born on October 16, 1919, in Olivia, Minnesota daughter of Myrtle Belle (Crowder) Winsor and Harold Lee Winsor University of California, B.A., 1938 married Robert J. Novelist whose bestseller Forever Amber shocked 1940s America.
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