# Harry Bernstein > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Harry_Bernstein > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Harry_Bernstein.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bernstein > Source revision: 1356632961 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American writer}} {{Infobox writer | image = | imagesize = | name = Harry Bernstein | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|5|30|mf=y}} | birth_name = Harry Louis Bernstein | birth_place = [Stockport](/source/Stockport), [England](/source/England) | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|6|3|1910|5|30|mf=y}} | death_place = [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), [New York City](/source/New_York_City), U.S. | occupation = Writer | nationality = American | period = 2007–2011 | genre = [Memoir](/source/Memoir), [Non-fiction](/source/Nonfiction) | subject = | movement = | signature = | website = }} '''Harry Louis Bernstein''' (May 30, 1910 – June 3, 2011) was a British-born American writer. Bernstein lived in [Brick Township, New Jersey](/source/Brick_Township%2C_New_Jersey).Rich, Motoko. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/books/07bern.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin "Successful at 96, Writer Has More to Say"], ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'', April 7, 2007. Accessed June 22, 2008. He died at the age of 101, on June 3, 2011.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/books/harry-bernstein-writer-who-gained-fame-at-96-dies-at-101.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries|title=Harry Bernstein, Writer Who Gained Fame at 96, Dies at 101| author=William Grimes| author-link=William Grimes (journalist)|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=June 7, 2011}} ==Biographical information== Before his retirement at age 62, Bernstein worked for movie production companies as a script reader and as a magazine editor for [trade magazines](/source/trade_magazines). He wrote freelance articles for such publications as ''[Popular Mechanics](/source/Popular_Mechanics)'', ''[Family Circle](/source/Family_Circle)'' and ''[Newsweek](/source/Newsweek)''. ==Writing== [''The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers''](/source/The_Invisible_Wall_(memoir)), his first-published book, dealt with a number of topics, including with his long-suffering mother Ada's struggle to feed her 6 children, an abusive, alcoholic father, the [anti-Semitism](/source/anti-Semitism) Bernstein and his Jewish neighbors encountered growing up in a [Cheshire](/source/Cheshire) mill town (Stockport, now part of Greater [Manchester](/source/Manchester)) in northwest England; the loss of Jews and Christians from the community in [World War I](/source/World_War_I), and the [Romeo and Juliet](/source/Romeo_and_Juliet) romance experienced by his sister Lily and her Christian boyfriend. The book was started when Bernstein was 93 and published in 2007, when he was 96.{{Cite web |date=2007 |title=The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers {{!}} Jewish Book Council |url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-invisible-wall-a-love-story-that-broke-barriers |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=www.jewishbookcouncil.org |language=en}} The loneliness he encountered following the death of his wife, Ruby, in 2002, after 67 years of marriage, was the catalyst for the work. ''The Dream'' (2008) is centered on his family's move to the [West Side](/source/West_Side%2C_Chicago) of [Chicago](/source/Chicago) in 1922 when he was twelve. ''The Golden Willow'' (2009), chronicles his married life and later years. A fourth book, ''What Happened to Rose'', was set to be published posthumously in 2012. It was published in 2013 in Italian, under the title ''La Sognatrice Bugiarda'' (translated as ''The Lying Dreamer'').{{Cite web |title=La Sognatrice Bugiarda |url=https://www.edizpiemme.it/libri/la-sognatrice-bugiarda |website=Piemme}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Sources== *[http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/09/arts/memoir.php Article from International Herald Tribune] *[http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070403/LIFE/704030329 Article from South Coast Today] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202037/http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070403/LIFE/704030329 |date=2016-03-03 }} *[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/books/04grim.html?ex=1177214400&en=be2fafaf831a01c1&ei=5070 Article from New York Times] *[http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/03/31/author_96_proves_its_never_too_late/?p1=MEWell_Pos4 Article from Boston Globe]{{dead link|date=May 2026|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100622022446/http://brucefrankel.net/index.php/site/articles/author_harry_bernstein_celebrates_100th_birthday_and_closes_in_on_four/ Harry Bernstein's 100th Birthday] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernstein, Harry}} Category:1910 births Category:2011 deaths Category:21st-century American Jews Category:21st-century American male writers Category:21st-century American memoirists Category:American men centenarians Category:American magazine editors Category:American male non-fiction writers Category:English emigrants to the United States Category:Jewish American memoirists Category:American memoirists Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers Category:Jewish centenarians Category:People from Brick Township, New Jersey Category:Writers from Ocean County, New Jersey Category:Writers from Stockport --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Harry Bernstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bernstein) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bernstein?action=history)). 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