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