Discipline: Literature

Jacqueline Bernard

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1973, 1974
Jacqueline de Sieyes Bernard (1921-1983) was an author, journalist, and social reformer. She was born in Le Bourget du Lac, Savoie, France. She attended Vassar College from 1939 to 1941 and the University of Chicago from 1941 to 1942, then married Allen Bernard in 1943. They had one son and later divorced. She was found dead, apparently from strangulation, in her New York apartment on August 1, 1983. Before her death, Bernard established credentials as a journalist, a social reformer, and an author. She worked as a journalist and in advertising for several employers from the late 1940s onward. In 1956 she co-founded Parents Without Partners, an organization for single parents and their children, and served as its vice president for more than a year. Later she worked against the Vietnam War and for women's rights and minority rights. These last two interests unite in her most significant book, Journey Toward Freedom, published in 1967.

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MacDowell

Jacqueline Bernard worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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