Frances Winwar

Winwar was born Francesca Vinciguerra in Taormina, Sicily and came to the United States through Ellis Island in June 1907. Her pseudonym Winwar is an calque of her birth name; she was required to change her name as a condition of publishing her first book. She was the daughter of Domenico Vinciguerra and the singer Giovanna Sciglio and after emigrating to the United States the family settled in New York. Winwar studied at Hunter College and Columbia University. == Career ==

Winwar started her career at The Masses magazine at the age of 18. Following the publication of an essay in The Freeman in 1923 she worked for the magazine and did further work for the New York Times, New Republic and the Saturday Review of Literature. In the 1930s and 1940s, Winwar was an outspoken opponent of Italian Fascism. == Selected published works ==

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Her husbands were: V.J. Jerome (né Jerome Isaac Romaine; 1896–1965), writer, communist propagandist (married 1919); Bernard David N. Brebanier (1903–1977), educator (married 1925; divorced 1942); Richard Wilson Webb (1901–1966), mystery novelist (married 1943); Francis duPont Lazenby, Ph.D. (1916–2003) (married 1949; divorced 1953); after divorcing; Lazenby, in 1955, joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame; in 1971, after 25 years at Notre Dame, while Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Notre Dame named him Professor Emeritus. ==References==