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 in this 1991 profile of Connecticut booksellers in the New York Times 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.
