Clare "Blossom" Elfman (née Bernstein) is an American novelist.
Elfman was born in New York City.
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She was married to Milton Elfman until his death in 2001.[3] Elfman is the mother of writer, director and publisher Richard Elfman, and musician and composer Danny Elfman, mother-in-law to Danny Elfman's wife, actress Bridget Fonda. She is the grandmother of actor and producer Bodhi Elfman,[4] and grandmother-in-law to Bodhi Elfman's wife, actress Jenna Elfman. She is grandmother of Danny Elfman's daughter, actress, producer and website editor, Mali Elfman.[5]
Blossom Elfman, writing under "Clare Elfman," is senior literary editor of Buzzine, which is owned and operated by Elfman family members.
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, as a stage musical. She is adapting her historical-fiction novel, 'Strawberry Fields of Heaven,' about the sexually experimentive 19th century Oneida Community, as a screenplay to be produced as a motion picture.