Editor and writer, Bertha Humez Hatvary grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the youngest daughter of Paul and Charlessie McKinnon Humez. She graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1944) where she studied Romance languages. She worked as a code clerk for the federal government (1944-1945), as a secretary to the assistant manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and as a secretary in the United States government's Economic Cooperation Administration in Paris (1949-1951). In 1952 she married George Egon Hatvary (1921- ), a Ph. D candidate in English literature at New York University where Bertha worked as a production editor for NYU Press. They had no children and divorced in the early 1960s. Following the divorce, Bertha continued to work as a writer and editor, first for NYU's news bureau (1964-1968) and later for the New York City Housing and Development Administration (1970-1973). She also spent time at her country house in Becket, Massachusetts, entertaining a large community of family and friends. She continued to live in her apartment in the West Village in Manhattan until 2005 when she moved to a nursing home in West Newton, Massachusetts.
From the description of Papers of Bertha Humez Hatvary, 1892-2000 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 500741048
