Eileen and her second husband Robert (Bob) Bassing, both writers of some distinction, lived in Ajijic between 1950 and 1954.
Eileen was born 6 March 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated in New York, Ohio and California. She married young, at age 16, and had two sons from her first marriage, before marrying Bob in 1948. She died aged 58 in February 1977 in Los Angeles, California.
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I am compiling information on women authors of this period who collaborated with writer husbands, as in the case of Eileen Bassing and her husband Bob. However, as with reader Eva above I can find next to nothing about her. If you do have information, would you let me know where to go about looking for it? Thanks, Maia Haines
Thanks for your query. I am replying via email later today.
I am finishing a biography of Polly Adler who was a friend of Eileen Bassing. Bassing helped Polly draft her memoir A House is Not a Home in 1949 and I am looking for a little more information about her. May I take a look at the biographical materials you have, solely for research purposes? Many thanks, Debby Applegate
Replying via email.