Catherine MacKenzie
{{Short description|Canadian-born journalist (1894 –1949)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Catherine MacKenzie
| image = Catherine MacKenzie (Bierstadt) (ca. 1894-1949) (6891481169).jpg
| alt = MacKenzie photographed at The New York Times in 1947
| caption = MacKenzie photographed at The New York Times in 1947
| other_names = Catherine Bierstadt
| occupation = Journalist
| birth_date = {{birth year|1894}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|10|24|1894|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
| death_place = New York, New York, United States
}}
Catherine Dunlop MacKenzie ({{circa|1894}} – 24 October 1949){{Cite news|date=October 25, 1949|title=Catherin Mackenzie, Times child editor, dies|pages=A|work=Evening Star|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1949-10-25/ed-1/seq-12/|access-date=2020-06-28}} was a Canadian-born journalist who worked in New York City.{{cite news | url=http://www.capebretongenweb.com/CBIOBITS/CB%20Obits%20Years%201946-1970.html | title=Obituary | work=Sydney Post Record | date=31 October 1949 | access-date=16 May 2015 | pages=9}}
Biography
MacKenzie was born in the small town of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, around 1894.{{cite web | url=http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_306322 | title=Catherine MacKenzie (Bierstadt) (ca. 1894-1949) | publisher=Smithsonian Institution | work=Smithsonian Institution Archives | access-date=16 May 2015}} 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.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ujlCgf1uSJIC&pg=PA437 | title=Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention | publisher=Arcade Publishing | author=Gray, Charlotte | year=2006 | pages=437 | isbn=9781559708098}} In 1928 she published a biography of Bell entitled Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Who Contracted Space.
By 1929,{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/83187472/ | title=Theatre Notes | work=Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society | date=1 June 1929 | access-date=16 May 2015 | pages=17 |via=Newspapers.com }} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/formaward.htm | title=Albert Lasker Awards Given by the National Committee Against Mental Illness | publisher=Lasker Foundation | work=Prior Awards | access-date=16 May 2015}}
MacKenzie married the New York writer Edward Hale Bierstadt in 1926.{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica22chic|title=Who's who in America|date=1942|publisher=Chicago : A.N. Marquis|pages=319}}
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Category:People from Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Category:Alexander Graham Bell
Category:Canadian women journalists
Category:American women journalists