Leonora Hornblow

Leonora Hornblow ( Salmon; later Schinasi; June 3, 1920 – November 5, 2005) was an American novelist, children's literature writer and socialite. She wrote two novels in the 1950s, wrote for Liberty magazine and Los Angeles Daily News, edited a collection of short stories with publisher Bennett Cerf, and collaborated with her second husband Arthur Hornblow Jr. on a series of children's books from 1965 to 1974.

Biography Hornblow was born Leonora Salmon June 3, 1920, in New York City to Ruby and Sidney Salmon. When she was a baby, Hornblow was given the nickname "Bubbles" by her mother because Leonora was not considered "a baby's name", something which she later resented. Her mother married tobacco baron Leon Schinasi and Hornblow became his stepdaughter. and began writing from an early age. In 1939, Hornblow married actor Wayne Morris; the 18-month marriage produced a son, Michael. In 1957, her second novel, The Love Seekers, was published,

After the death of her husband in 1976, Leonora's busy New York life included a passion for stationery shops.

Sidney Zion described Hornblow as "the savvieest broad in town". The personal papers and biographical details of Hornblow and her husband are housed in the Margaret Herrick Library, which is operated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.