Florence Bonime

Florence Bonime was born May 12, 1907 in the Bronx. When she was 16 she began working in advertising, eventually becoming a copywriter. After divorcing a previous husband, Louis Cummings, 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. 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==