Anne Fleischman Bernays (born September 14, 1930) is an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others asp ...

, editor, and teacher.

Life

Bernays attended the

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on New York City's

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, graduating in 1948. A 1952 graduate of

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, she was managing editor of ''discovery'', a literary magazine, before moving from

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, Massachusetts, 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

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, Boston College, Holy Cross, Harvard Extension, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, and MFA Program at

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. She is a founder of PEN/New England and a member of the Writer's Union. She serves as chairman of the board of

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and co-president of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

Family

Her father, Edward L. Bernays, was a nephew of

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and is known as "the father of Public Relations." Bernays appeared in the

Adam Curtis Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is an English documentary filmmaker. Curtis began his career as a conventional documentary producer for the BBC throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The release of ''Pandora's Box'' (1992) marked the ...

series ''

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'' (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. Both her parents were nonpracticing, highly assimilated, wealthy German-American Jews. She was married to the biographer and editor

Justin Kaplan Justin Daniel Kaplan (September 5, 1925 in Manhattan, New York City – March 2, 2014 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American writer and editor. The general editor of ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' (16th and 17th eds.), he was best kn ...

until his death in 2014; they lived in

, and

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, and had three daughters, Susanna Kaplan Donahue, Hester Margaret Kaplan Stein, and Polly Anne Kaplan Tigges; and six grandchildren.

Selected novels

* ''Growing up Rich'' Little, Brown, 1975, . (

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) * ''Professor Romeo'' reprint, University Press of New England, 1997, . (a ''

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'' "Notable Book of the Year")
''Trophy House''
Simon and Schuster, 2005, . She is co-author of three non-fiction books: * ''What If?'' (with Pamela Painter) HarperCollins Publishers, 1990, . * ''The Language of Names'' (with

) Simon & Schuster, 1999, .
''Back Then''
(with Justin Kaplan). reprint HarperCollins, 2003,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernays, Anne American women writers Boston University faculty Boston College faculty Harvard University staff Lesley University faculty Barnard College alumni American people of Austrian-Jewish descent Jewish American novelists 1930 births Living people Brearley School alumni Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Massachusetts Freud family Bernays family