Emily Bernard Explained

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]

Awards and recognition

• 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]

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^[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

External links

• Official website: Emily Bernard

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Bernard. Emily. Department of English : University of Vermont. www.uvm.edu. University of Vermont. 30 November 2017. en.
3. Web site: Emily Bernard. HarperCollins US. Harper Collins. 30 November 2017. en.
4. News: NOTABLE BOOKS. 2001-12-02. The New York Times. 2017-11-30. en-US. 0362-4331.
5. News: BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Advice With Avocados: A Letter-Writing Friendship. Maslin. Janet. 2001-03-05. The New York Times. 2017-11-30. en-US. 0362-4331.
6. Web site: The Sycamore Review Literature, Opinion, and the Arts. web.ics.purdue.edu. 2017-11-30.
7. Web site: Emily Bernard Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. beinecke.library.yale.edu. en. 2017-11-30.
8. Web site: Emily Bernard. www.uvm.edu. en. 2020-02-17.
9. Web site: The Christopher Isherwood Prize . The Christopher Isherwood Foundation . 27 September 2021 . 26 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210926112745/http://www.isherwoodfoundation.org/prizes.html . dead .
10. News: McCauley. Mary Carole. The white advocate for the Harlem Renaissance. 8 October 2012. baltimoresun.com. 30 November 2017. The Baltimore Sun.