Florence Bonime
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. 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)
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