Florence Bonime

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

Life

Florence Bonime

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]

She was survived by her husband, Dr Walter Bonime, her son Frank Cummings, her daughter Norma Ruth Lovins, her step-daughter Karen Bonime her step-son Stephen Bonime, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

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. 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)