Anne Bernays
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Anne Bernays is an American
novelist, editor, and teacher.
, she was managing editor of discovery, a literary magazine, before moving from New York
to Cambridge, MA
, in 1959 when she began her career as a novelist.
Bernays has been published widely in national magazines and journals and is a long-time teacher of writing at Boston University
, Boston College
, Holy Cross
, Harvard Extension, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
at Harvard, and MFA Program at Lesley University
.
She is a founder of PEN/New England and a member of the Writer’s Union. She serves as chairman of the board of Fine Arts Work Center
in Provincetown
and co-president of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.
, was a nephew of Sigmund Freud
and is known as 'the father of Public Relations'. Bernays appeared in the Adam Curtis
series The Century of Self (2002) where she was critical of her father's shaky commitment to democracy and skill at manipulation. Her mother, Doris E. Fleischman, was a writer and feminist. She is married to the biographer and editor Justin Kaplan
; they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts
, and Truro, Massachusetts
, and have three daughters and six grandchildren.
She is co-author of three non-fiction books:
United States
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novelist, editor, and teacher.
Life
A graduate of Barnard CollegeBarnard College
Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...
, she was managing editor of discovery, a literary magazine, before moving from New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
to Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
, in 1959 when she began her career as a novelist.
Bernays has been published widely in national magazines and journals and is a long-time teacher of writing at Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
, Boston College
Boston College
Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
, Holy Cross
College of the Holy Cross
The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...
, Harvard Extension, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
Nieman Foundation for Journalism
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is the primary journalism institution at Harvard. It was founded in 1938 as the result of a $1 million bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of The Milwaukee Journal...
at Harvard, and MFA Program at Lesley University
Lesley University
Lesley University is a private, coeducational university in Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts.The university is a member of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and New England Collegiate Conference.-History:The...
.
She is a founder of PEN/New England and a member of the Writer’s Union. She serves as chairman of the board of Fine Arts Work Center
Fine Arts Work Center
The Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit enterprise devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoration of the year-round vitality of the historic art...
in Provincetown
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,431 at the 2000 census, with an estimated 2007 population of 3,174...
and co-president of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.
Family
Her father, Edward L. BernaysEdward Bernays
Edward Louis Bernays , was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda along with Ivy Lee, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations"...
, was a nephew of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
and is known as 'the father of Public Relations'. Bernays appeared in the Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis is a British BAFTA winning documentarian and a writer, television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs.-Early life and education:Curtis was born in 1955...
series The Century of Self (2002) where she was critical of her father's shaky commitment to democracy and skill at manipulation. Her mother, Doris E. Fleischman, was a writer and feminist. She is married to the biographer and editor Justin Kaplan
Justin Kaplan
Justin Kaplan is an American writer and editor.Kaplan received his bachelor of science degree from Harvard University in 1945...
; they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
, and Truro, Massachusetts
Truro, Massachusetts
Truro is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro. Located two hours outside Boston, it is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an area known as the "Outer Cape"...
, and have three daughters and six grandchildren.
Selected novels
- Growing up Rich Little, Brown, 1975, ISBN 9780316091886 (Edward Lewis Wallant AwardEdward Lewis Wallant AwardIn 1962, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award was established at the University of Hartford, in Connecticut, USA. It is presented annually to an American writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews...
) - Professor Romeo reprint, University Press of New England, 1997, ISBN 9780874518092(a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”)
- Trophy House, Simon and Schuster, 2005, ISBN 9780743288583
She is co-author of three non-fiction books:
- What If? (with Pamela Painter) HarperCollins Publishers, 1990, ISBN 9780062700384
- The Language of Names (with Justin KaplanJustin KaplanJustin Kaplan is an American writer and editor.Kaplan received his bachelor of science degree from Harvard University in 1945...
) Simon & Schuster, 1999, ISBN 9780684838670 - Back Then (with Justin Kaplan). reprint HarperCollins, 2003, ISBN 9780060958053
Reviews
The book ends in 1959, with Bernays and Kaplan, married and the parents of two small daughters, leaving Manhattan for Cambridge, Mass., he to work on a biography of Mark Twain, she to write her first novel. The New York they leave behind, one that New York itself had left behind, was something unmatchable anywhere in the world.