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[edit]

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. Archived from the original on 26 September 2021. 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.