I began writing at Bennington College where I studied under the late poet laureate, Howard Nemerov. After college, I worked briefly for The Vanguard Press and spent two years in the fiction department of McCall’s Magazine. In New York, I grew to admire adman, David Ogilvy, and was lucky enough to be hired as a writer at his advertising agency. These were the “Mad Men“ days of advertising but I was treated wonderfully, promoted to creative supervisor and then to senior vice president.
Later, I moved west to become head of Ogilvy’s agency in Los Angeles where I managed 200 employees who served clients Mattel, Columbia Pictures, General Foods cereals, and Baskin-Robbins. I was invited to be a member of the 1984 Olympic Organizing Committee and a board director of Southwestern University Law School. I co-founded the ICAN Associates, a fund-raising organization devoted to helping the Los Angeles Council on Child Abuse and Neglect.
In 1983, I joined the faculty of the Reynolds School of Journalism at The University of Nevada, Reno as a full professor. In addition to teaching, I served for six months as director of affirmative action and, in 2003, was elected chair of the UNR Faculty Senate. I served on the executive boards of the Economic Development Commission of Western Nevada and The Forum for a Common Agenda, non-profits devoted to improving northern Nevada’s economy and education.
I retired to write fiction in 2009 and spend time at home in Reno, Nevada with my husband Bob Buss, a retired stockbroker. We share four children and eight grandchildren and are currently owned by a Golden retriever.
Email bournemorris@gmail.com
Later, I moved west to become head of Ogilvy’s agency in Los Angeles where I managed 200 employees who served clients Mattel, Columbia Pictures, General Foods cereals, and Baskin-Robbins. I was invited to be a member of the 1984 Olympic Organizing Committee and a board director of Southwestern University Law School. I co-founded the ICAN Associates, a fund-raising organization devoted to helping the Los Angeles Council on Child Abuse and Neglect.
In 1983, I joined the faculty of the Reynolds School of Journalism at The University of Nevada, Reno as a full professor. In addition to teaching, I served for six months as director of affirmative action and, in 2003, was elected chair of the UNR Faculty Senate. I served on the executive boards of the Economic Development Commission of Western Nevada and The Forum for a Common Agenda, non-profits devoted to improving northern Nevada’s economy and education.
I retired to write fiction in 2009 and spend time at home in Reno, Nevada with my husband Bob Buss, a retired stockbroker. We share four children and eight grandchildren and are currently owned by a Golden retriever.
Email bournemorris@gmail.com