Barbara Field Benziger

Background

Barbara Benziger was born on January 6, 1918, in New York City, New York, United States. She was the daughter of Marshall Field and Evelyn Isabella Marshall.

Education

Barbara attended the Brearley School in New York City.

Career

Barbara founded North Shore Community Hospital in 1946. She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Field Foundation from 1946 to 1956 and assistant secretary of Fountain House, a Manhattan center for rehabilitating patients recently discharged from mental hospitals. She also was a survivor of the sinking of the ocean liner Andrea Doria in 1956.

Achievements

• Barbara is best remembered as the author of two popular in her time books: The Prison of My Mind and Speaking Out: Therapists and Patients.

Works

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• book

  • Speaking out:

    (Therapists and patients, how they cure and cope with ment...)

    1976
  • The prison of my mind

    (A trip into madness.)

    1969

Interests

• Travel, piano, photography, and sculpture

• Sport & Clubs

  Tennis, fishing, hunting

Connections

Barbara was three times married and had four children.

Father:

Marshall Field

Mother:

Evelyn Isabella Marshall

Spouse:

Anthony Addison Bliss

Spouse:

Robert Kenneth Boggs

Spouse:

George Peter Joseph Benziger

Daughter:

Sarah Lenox Boggs Griswold

References

• Contemporary Authors A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields
  2008