This was his first published book after a lifetime of rejection letters telling him that his novel did not fit the company’s plans. He died at the age of 101, in June 2011.Įarlier this year I had the opportunity to read The Invisible Wall, a memoir written by nonagenarian Harry Bernstein. He also wrote freelance articles for such publications as Popular Mechanics, Family Circle and Newsweek.īernstein lived in Brick Township, New Jersey. A fourth book, What Happended to Rose, will be published posthumously, in 2012.īefore his retirement at age 62, Bernstein worked for various movie production companies, reading scripts and working as a magazine editor for trade magazines. In 2009, he published his third book, The Golden Willow, which chronicled his married life and later years.
His second book, The Dream, published in 2008, centered on his family’s move to the United States when he was twelve. The loneliness he encountered following the death of his wife, Ruby, in 2002, after 67 years of marriage, was the catalyst for Bernstein to begin work on his book.
The book was started when Bernstein was 93 and published in 2007, when he was 96. Harry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer whose first published book, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, dealt with his abusive, alcoholic father, the anti-Semitism he encountered growing up in a Lancashire mill town (Stockport - now part of Greater Manchester) in northwest England, and the Romeo and Juliet-like romance experienced by his sister and her Christian boyfriend.
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