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

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Early life and education

Emily Bernard was born in

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. She earned a BA and a

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in American Studies from

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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

References

External links

*Official website
Emily Bernard
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