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Eunice Putnam Blake Bohanon (April 19, 1904 – February 16, 1997) was an American children's book editor and vice-president of J. B. Lippincott & Co. and president of the Children's Book Council.
Eunice Blake Bohanon | |
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Born | Eunice Putnam Blake April 19, 1904 |
Died | February 16, 1997 92) | (aged
Occupation(s) | Children's book editor, consultant |
Relatives | James Luce Kingsley (great-grandfather) |
Eunice Putnam Blake was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of James Kingsley Blake and Helen Langley Putnam Blake.[1] Her father, a lawyer,[2] died in 1911, when she and her sister were young. She was descended from prominent old New England families; two of her great-grandfathers were inventor Eli Whitney Blake and classical scholar James Luce Kingsley.[3] She graduated from Smith College in 1925.[4]
Bohanon was an editor and vice-president at J. B. Lippincott & Co.[5] and president of the Children's Book Council.[6] She held a Fulbright Scholarship in 1964 for study in India.[5] In the 1960s, she was a representative of the Franklin Book Programs, a project of the USAID; with the Franklin program, she promoted children's literature and literacy in travels through India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Italy, Israel, and through several African countries in the 1960s.[7][8][9] She was a member of the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club selection board in 1969 and 1971,[10] and a judge for the Sarah Josepha Hale Awards in the 1970s.[11]
Bohanon co-wrote Portrait of Jesus: Paintings and Engravings from the National Gallery of Art (1956) with Marian King;[12] the book was published in separate Catholic and Protestant editions.[13] She also wrote an introduction to a 1980 edition of Azor and the Blue-Eyed Cow by Maude Crowley.[14]
Bohanon donated an easement on her land in New Hampshire to the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust, to protect the public view of Lake Sunapee.[15] She also collected Indian art,[16] and donated art to the Currier Museum of Art.[17][18] She gave an oral history interview to New London History & Archives.[19]
Eunice Blake married architect and children's book author Paul I. Bohanon in 1939.[20] He died in 1954.[21] She died in 1997, aged 92 years.[22] The University of Oregon Libraries hold a collection of her papers.[8]
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