Word: winsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joanna Bailey of Cambridge, a student in the Winsor School, won an Ann Radcliffe Award. This award is given to students possessing exceptional ability...
...April 17 TIME says: "Last year, with the memory of Amber's sales still green in her publisher's bank account, Kathleen [Winsor] asked a whopping $50,000 advance for her second novel, Star Money. The publisher (Macmillan) regretfully declined...
...Sales. Despite the caution of the first two publishers, Novelist Winsor has almost certainly produced another bestseller; not an avalanche like Amber, but a book that is likely to start a right jolly little bookslide. She has done it, as before, by main shrewdness, by the use of a prose so obvious that it can (and almost has to) be read under a hair-dryer, and by a skill in mixing the formula for bestselling pap that should keep her customers cooing for more...
...base of the Winsor formula is still a viscous glob of sex. In Amber, it was diluted in a little English history. In Star Money, it is stirred into the well-publicized life of the author herself. That is not to say that Star Money is autobiographical. Novelist Winsor primly asserts: "This novel is in no sense autobiographical." Yet the book gives a come-on as broad as the devil's front porch to the thousands who may buy the book for its confessional interest: the heroine, Shireen Delaney, is a beautiful doll who at 26 publishes a historical...
...write a book about yourself in the twentieth century-like you wrote one about yourself in the eighteenth?" By page 352, Shireen has slipped some paper into a typewriter and made a start. If Shireen has sense enough to make her central character a beautiful doll named Kathleen Winsor, it should be a bestseller...