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Deborah Benson (31 May 1924 - 26 February 2002), also known by her married name of Deborah Benson Covington. She traded under the name of Deborah Benson, Bookseller. (For a fairly detailed summary of her business and her career, see for instance this profile of her in the Hartford Courant of 13 December 1984.) She held herself out as a specialist in antiquarian medical books and in Alice in Wonderland. Birth date and death date taken from the Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012.
Born Deborah Abramson. Per her profile in the Courant she changed her surname from Abramson to Benson when she turned 21 “as a gift to her father, who had always wanted a son.” She was daughter of bookseller Ben Abramson of the Argus Book Shop of Chicago and New York (and briefly of Mohegan Lake); see the collection overview of the Argus Book Shop correspondence collection at Yale for a brief precis of the life and career of Ben Abramson.) She published a memoir of her father's career in 1977: D. B. Covington. The Argus Book Shop: A Memoir. West Cornwall, Conn.: Tarrydiddle Press, 1977.
