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

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

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)