Catherine Dunlop MacKenzie ( – 24 October 1949) was a

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-born journalist who worked in

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Biography

MacKenzie was born in the small town of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, around 1894. Baddeck was the site of

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'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

where she initially found work writing a series of newspaper and magazine articles about her home province of

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, which were paid for by the provincial government. She later became the parent/child editor of ''

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'', a position she held until her death. In 1947, she received the

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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.

References

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