Emily Bernard

Emily Bernard (born 1967)[1] is an American writer and the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont.[2]

Early life and education

Emily Bernard was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She earned a BA and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.[3]

2001: New York Times Notable Book of the Year[4] for Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten[5]
2006: New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age for Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship[6]
2008–9: James Weldon Johnson Fellowship in African American Studies, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library[7]
2010: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs[8]
2019: Los Angeles Times – Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, for Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine[9]

Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine (2019), Knopf
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White (2010), Yale University Press[10]
Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs with Deborah Willis (2009), W.W. Norton
Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships (2004), HarperCollins
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten (2001), Knopf

Bernard, Emily 1967- in libraries (WorldCat catalog).
Bernard, Emily. "Department of English : University of Vermont". www.uvm.edu. University of Vermont. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
"Emily Bernard". HarperCollins US. Harper Collins. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
"NOTABLE BOOKS". The New York Times. 2001-12-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
Maslin, Janet (2001-03-05). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Advice With Avocados: A Letter-Writing Friendship". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
"The Sycamore Review | Literature, Opinion, and the Arts". web.ics.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
"Emily Bernard | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library". beinecke.library.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
"Emily Bernard". www.uvm.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
"The Christopher Isherwood Prize". The Christopher Isherwood Foundation. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
McCauley, Mary Carole (8 October 2012). "The white advocate for the Harlem Renaissance". baltimoresun.com. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 30 November 2017.

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