Florence Bonime

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Florence Bonime (1907-1990) was an American novelist. She also published under the name Florence Cummings.

Life

Florence Bonime was born May 12, 1907[1] in the Bronx. When she was 16 she began working in advertising, eventually becoming a copywriter.[2]

After divorcing a previous husband, Louis Cummings,[3][4] she married the psychoanalyst Walter Bonime in 1953.[citation needed] She later co-authored papers on psychoanalysis with both him and Marianne Eckardt.

In the 1960s and 1970s she taught fiction-writing at the New School for Social Research. In 1964, aged 57, she gained a BA from Brooklyn College. In 1979 she completed a PhD at Union Institute in Cincinnati.[2]

She died at her home in Manhattan on October 2, 1990.[2] Some of her papers are held at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.[5]

Works

  • (as Florence Cummings) The good Mrs. Shephard. New York: Crown Publishers, 1950.
  • A Thousand Imitations. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1967.
  • (with Marianne H. Eckardt) 'On Psychoanalyzing Literary Characters', Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, vol. 5, no. 2 (1977)
  • (with Walter Bonime) 'Psychoanalytic Writing: An Essay on Communication', Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, vol. 6, no. 3 (1978)

References

  1. ^ Library of Congress Name Authority File
  2. ^ a b c Florence Bonime Novelist, 83, The New York Times, October 6, 1990.
  3. ^ Bonime v. Cummings, 5 A.D.2d 976 (1958).
  4. ^ New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division- First Department.
  5. ^ Bonime, Florence (1907-1990)