1940s. It sold over 100,000 copies in its first week of release, and went on to sell over three million copies. Later career 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. The marriage to Shaw ended in 1948, and Winsor soon married her divorce attorney, Arnold Krakower. That marriage likewise ended in divorce, in 1953. In 1956 Winsor married for the fourth time, to Paul A. Porter, a former head of the Federal Communications Commission. They remained married until Porter's death in 1975. 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. Death Winsor died May 26, 2003 in New York City. Works Forever Amber (1944) Star Money (1950) The Lovers (1952) America, With Love (1954) Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West (1965) Calais (1979) Jacintha (1984) Robert and Arabella (1986) Papers Winsor's manuscripts and research from 1940-1949 are at The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Notes References Guardian Unlimited obituary on Kathleen Winsor External links Lise Jaillant, "Subversive Middlebrow: The Campaigns to Ban Kathleen Winsor’s Forever Amber in the United States and in Canada." International Journal of Canadian Studies (Special issue on Print Culture and the Middlebrow, ed. Michelle Smith & Faye Hammill) 48 (2014): 33-52. Guardian Unlimited book review of Forever Amber by Elaine Showalter, August 2002. Time magazine book review, October 1957, of America, With Love. 1919 births 2003 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers American historical novelists American romantic fiction writers American women novelists People from Olivia, Minnesota Writers from Berkeley, California Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period 21st-century American women