Emily Bernard

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

Early life and education
Emily Bernard was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She earned a BA and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.

Awards and recognition

 * 2001: New York Times Notable Book of the Year for Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
 * 2006: New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age for Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship
 * 2008–9: James Weldon Johnson Fellowship in African American Studies, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
 * 2010: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs
 * 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

Selected works

 * 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
 * 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