Background
Nina Bernstein was born on October 7, 1949, in New York, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Lester Bernstein and his wife, Jacqueline Lipscomb, an artist. She has three siblings.
Cambridge, MA, United States
In 1970 Nina Bernstein received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University.
(IIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial cla...)
IIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial class-action lawsuit that challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. The plaintiff was an abused runaway named Shirley Wilder who had suffered from the system’s inequities. Wilder, as the case came to be known, was waged for two and a half decades, becoming a battleground for the conflicts of race, religion, and politics that shape America’s child-welfare system. The Lost Children of Wilder gives us the galvanizing history of this landmark case and the personal story at its core. Nina Bernstein takes us behind the scenes of far-reaching legal and legislative battles, but she also traces the life of Shirley Wilder and her son, Lamont, born when Shirley was only fourteen and relinquished to the very system being challenged in her name. Bernstein’s account of Shirley and Lamont’s struggles captures the heartbreaking consequences of the child welfare system’s best intentions and deepest flaws. In the tradition of There Are No Children Here, this is a major achievement of investigative journalism and a tour de force of social observation, a gripping book that will haunt every reader who cares about the needs of children.
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Children-Wilder-Struggle-Change/dp/0679758348/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Lost+Children+of+Wilder%3A+The+Epic+Struggle+to+Change+Foster+Care&qid=1610788706&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(Neither Anne nor Emily remembered choosing the book at th...)
Neither Anne nor Emily remembered choosing the book at the library, but when as they read it, the boundary between their world and the one described in the book disappears. Suddenly they are in Sherwood Forest, where they join Robin Hood's band. The further adventures that await Anne, Emily, and their brother, Will, are the kind they had always dreamed about. They had yearned for magic as strong as the spell cast by the stories they loved best. But then an uninvited guest turns up at their parents' garden party. The sinister man snatches the book with the intention of using its powers for evil, and the siblings find themselves engaged in a battle to regain possession of the book. Richly detailed black-and-white drawings enliven this intriguing literary fantasy, which pays homage to some of the heroes of the author's childhood, among them E. Nesbit, Edward Eager, and Leo Tolstoy.
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Book-Nina-Bernstein/dp/0374347182
2005
Nina Bernstein was born on October 7, 1949, in New York, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Lester Bernstein and his wife, Jacqueline Lipscomb, an artist. She has three siblings.
In 1970 Nina Bernstein received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University.
Nina Bernstein was a reporter in Des Moines, Iowa, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 1972 to 1986 she worked as a reporter for Milwaukee Journal in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 1990 to 1991 Bernstein served as a foreign correspondent for New York Newsday in New York, then a reporter from 1991 to 1995. In 1995 she was appointed a reporter for New York Times, retiring in 2016.
In 1994 her New York Newsday series about Wilder won Columbia University School of Journalism's Mike Berger Award, and she was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship to continue her research into foster care. In 1995 she received the George Polk Award for distinguished metropolitan coverage. In 2001 she published The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care, a nonfiction book. She is also the author of Magic by the Book (2005), a children's book.
(Neither Anne nor Emily remembered choosing the book at th...)
2005(IIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial cla...)
2001On June 22, 1975, Nina Bernstein married Andreas Huyssen. They have two children: Daniel, David.