She did live in Berkeley when she was married to Robert Herwig c.1940. * NB: Some obituaries for her 1 (and hence Wikipedia) say she was raised in Berkeley, but the 1923 directory (1220 Excelsior), 1928 directory (3012 Sylvan), and 19 census listings show her family living in Oakland. He lapsed into a coma and died 5 days later. She was married to Porter from 1956 until Porter's untimely death in 1975 when he choked on some lobster while at a restaurant. Winsor was married 4 times: college football star and WWII Marine Robert "Bob" Herwig, bandleader Artie Shaw, divorce attorney Arnold Krakower, and attorney and FCC chairman Paul A.
5Įdward attended the Boeing School of Aeronautics c.1943. Harold was in real estate, later partner of the Holman-Winsor Co., and c.1947 starting his own business, The Winsor Company. Winsor's 1938 voter registration lists the Randolph Avenue address. 4įrom at least 1933 to at least 1964, her parents lived at 3811 Randolph Avenue in Glenview. LaPorte of Park Boulevard Presbyterian on November 26 or 27, 1936. They were married in her parents' home in Glenview by Rev. 6 She attended UC Berkeley, where she met her first husband, Robert Herwig.
She attended the Fruitvale School c.1929, and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1933. * In 1930, she lived with her parents Harold Lee Winsor (Ma– March 31, 1971) and Myrtle Crowder (Winsor) (Febru– December 19, 1964), and her brother Edward Harold Winsor (Novem– February 17, 1977) at 3012 Sylvan Avenue in Lincoln Highlands. Winsor was born in Minnesota but raised in Oakland. A film version of Forever Amber was released in 1947. Hollywood thought it sounded profitable, and purchased the movie rights. Altogether, Forever Amber sold more than 3m copies and was translated into 16 languages.
It was, and 100,000 copies were snapped up in the first week. Of course, the bans were coded messages to the American reading public, which concluded that the book sounded like fun. The Massachusetts attorney-general found 70 references to sexual intercourse, 39 illegitimate pregnancies, seven abortions, 10 scenes in which women undressed in front of men who were not their husbands, and nearly 50 "miscellaneous objectionable passages" - and announced that the book would be banned (an action overturned on appeal). 7įorever Amber was banned in 14 states and Australia. She wrote at the Tribune for a 6 months, then worked as a receptionist at the newspaper for 6 months. She began her writing career in 1937 at the Oakland Tribune where she wrote a sports column 5 from a woman's point of view, which was published three times a week. Kathleen Winsor (October 13 or 16, 1915 * – May 26, 2003) was an author, best known for the controversial novel Forever Amber published in 1944.
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