Kathleen Winsor

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born

October 16, 1919 in Olivia, Minnesota, The United States

died

May 29, 2003

genre

Historical Fiction

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Winsor was raised in Berkeley, California. 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. Winsor graduated in 1938 from the University of California, Berkeley. During her school years, she married a fellow student, All-American college football player Robert Herwig. In 1937, she began writing a thrice-weekly sports column for the Oakland Tribune. 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.
Winsor became interested in the Restoration period through her husband. Herwig was writing a paper for school on Charles II, and, out of boredom, Winsor read...more

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Books by Kathleen Winsor

Average rating: 3.90 · 4,252 ratings · 462 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor, Winsor Kathleen 3.91 avg rating — 4,203 ratings — published 1944 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1965 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Calais 3.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Robert And Arabella 3.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Star Money 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1950 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Jacintha 2.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1984	My rating:
	America with Love 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Forever Amber Volume I 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1944	My rating:
	The Lovers 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1952 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Kathleen Winsor

“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, the never get around to doing what they want to do.”
― Kathleen Winsor

11 people liked it

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

8 people liked it

“If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness”
― Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber

tags: amber-st-clare , forever-amber

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Polls

There was a tie! Between the tied books, which one would you like to read for our February 1 - March 1 History group read?

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor

18 votes, 51.4%

Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen

17 votes, 48.6%

35 total votes

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