page_title: Catherine MacKenzie
hierarchical_section_title: Catherine MacKenzie
caption_attribution_description: Born in Nova Scotia, the journalist Catherine MacKenzie (Bierstadt) (ca. 1894-1949) began working for the New York Times in 1925. From 1939 until her death, she wrote the newspaper's popular "Parent-Child" column. In 1948, she was the co-recipient (with Lawrence K. Frank) of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Award for contributions to adult education on mental illness issues. She was married to Edward Hale Bierstedt
context_page_description: Catherine Dunlop MacKenzie was a Canadian-born journalist who worked in New York City.
  MacKenzie was born in the small town of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, around 1894. Baddeck was the site of Alexander Graham Bell's summer home, and towards the end of his life he spent increasing time there conducting experiments. For the eight years preceding Bell's 1922 death, MacKenzie worked as his personal secretary and research assistant. In 1928 she published a biography of Bell entitled Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Who Contracted Space.
  By 1929, MacKenzie had moved to New York City where she initially found work writing a series of newspaper and magazine articles about her home province of Nova Scotia, which were paid for by the provincial government. She later became the parent/child editor of the New York Times, a position she held until her death. In 1947, she received the Lasker Award for her work on mental illness, in relation to her regular "Parent and Child" column.
  MacKenzie married the New York writer Edward Hale Bierstadt in 1926.
context_section_description: Catherine Dunlop MacKenzie (c. 1894 – 24 October 1949) was a Canadian-born journalist who worked in New York City.
  MacKenzie was born in the small town of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, around 1894. Baddeck was the site of Alexander Graham Bell's summer home, and towards the end of his life he spent increasing time there conducting experiments. For the eight years preceding Bell's 1922 death, MacKenzie worked as his personal secretary and research assistant. In 1928 she published a biography of Bell entitled Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Who Contracted Space.
  By 1929, MacKenzie had moved to New York City where she initially found work writing a series of newspaper and magazine articles about her home province of Nova Scotia, which were paid for by the provincial government. She later became the parent/child editor of the New York Times, a position she held until her death. In 1947, she received the Lasker Award for her work on mental illness, in relation to her regular "Parent and Child" column.
  MacKenzie married the New York writer Edward Hale Bierstadt in 1926.
caption: MacKenzie photographed at the New York Times in 1947
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