Bernays, Doris Fleischman, 1892-1980

Author, editor, feminist, and public relations consultant, Doris Fleischman Bernays (1892-1980) was born in New York City, the daughter of Samuel and Harriet (Rosenthal) Fleischman. After graduating from Barnard College (1913), she worked for the New York Tribune as a reporter, and then successively as assistant woman's page editor and assistant Sunday editor. In 1919 she joined her future husband, Edward L. Bernays, in his new public relations firm in New York. It was largely through their pioneering efforts that the principles, practices, and ethics of the new profession of public relations were established. They were married in 1922, and had two daughters. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1980.

Editor of An Outline of Careers for Women (1919), and contributor to America As Americans See It (1932), and to Varied Harvest (1953), Bernays was also the author of A Wife Is Many Women (1955). She was vice-president of the Edward L. Bernays Foundation, president of the Women Pays Club, vice-president of the Lucy Stone League, and member of Women in Communications, Inc.

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