Eunice Blake Bohanon

Eunice Putnam Blake Bohanon (April 19, 1904 – February 16, 1997) was an American children's book editor and vice-president of J.

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.

[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.

[19] Eunice Blake married architect and children's book author Paul I. Bohanon in 1939.