Emily Bernard

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

Early life and education

Emily Bernard was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She earned a BA and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.[2]

Awards and Recognition
  • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (2010) for Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs[3]
  • James Weldon Johnson Fellowship in African American Studies (2008-2009), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library[4]
  • New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age (2006) for Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship[5]
  • New York Times Notable Book of the Year (2001)[6] for Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten[7]

Additional 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[8]
  • 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
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References
  1. Bernard, Emily. "Department of English : University of Vermont". www.uvm.edu. University of Vermont. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. "Emily Bernard". HarperCollins US. Harper Collins. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  3. "Emily Bernard". www.uvm.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  4. "Emily Bernard | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library". beinecke.library.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  5. "The Sycamore Review | Literature, Opinion, and the Arts". web.ics.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  6. "NOTABLE BOOKS". The New York Times. 2001-12-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  7. 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.
  8. 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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