Clare "Blossom" Elfman is an American

United States

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 novel

Novel

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ist.

Elfman was born in New York City.

Film

• The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
• CBS Afternoon Playhouse: I think I'm Having a Baby (1981)

Awards

• The Girls of Huntington House won the ALA
  American Library Association
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   Best Book for Young Adults Award in 1972
• A House for Jonnie O. won the ALA Best Book for Young Adults Award in 1977
• CBS Afternoon Playhouse: I think I'm Having a Baby won a Daytime Emmy Award
  Daytime Emmy Award
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   for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming

Family

She was married to Milton Elfman until his death in 2001. Elfman is the mother of writer, director and publisher Richard Elfman

Richard Elfman

Richard "Rick" Elfman, , is an American film actor, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and magazine publisher.-Family:...

, and musician and composer Danny Elfman

Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...

, mother-in-law to Danny Elfman's wife, actress Bridget Fonda

Bridget Fonda

Bridget Jane Fonda is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III, Single White Female, Point of No Return, It Could Happen to You, and Jackie Brown...

. She is the grandmother of actor and producer Bodhi Elfman

Bodhi Elfman

Bodhi Elfman , also known as Bodhi Pine Elfman, is an American actor.-Career:Elfman has had film roles in Mercury Rising, Collateral, Godzilla and Armageddon, and smaller parts in The Mod Squad, Keeping the Faith and Gone in 60 Seconds.Elfman starred in the UPN television series Freedom, alongside...

, and grandmother-in-law to Bodhi Elfman's wife, actress Jenna Elfman

Jenna Elfman

Jennifer Mary "Jenna" Elfman is an American television and film actress. She is known for her role as Dharma on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg and as Billie on the short-lived CBS sitcom Accidentally on Purpose....

. She is grandmother of Danny Elfman's daughter, actress, producer and website editor, Mali Elfman.

Buzzine

Blossom Elfman, writing under "Clare Elfman," is senior literary editor of Buzzine, which is owned and operated by Elfman family members.

Adaptations of Novels

Adaptations of Elfman novels 'The Girls of Huntington House' was produced as a film and 'I Think I'm Having a Baby' received an Emmy as a television movie.

Elfman is currently adapting and producing her most recent novel, 'The Case of the Pederast's Wife,' about the wife of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

, as a stage musical. She is adapting her historical-fiction novel, 'Strawberry Fields of Heaven,' about the sexually experimentive 19th century Oneida Community

Oneida Community

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, as a screenplay to be produced as a motion picture.