Emily Bernard
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Emily Bernard | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 57–58) |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Employer | University of Vermont |
| Notable work | Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine (2019) |
| Awards | Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose |
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]
Publications
The 2004 anthology Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships, was edited and introduced by Bernard.[4] She is the author of books including Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White (2010) and Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, which won the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose in 2019.[5] The essay collection Black Is the Body was among Maureen Corrigan's "Favorite Books of 2019",[6] and Kirkus Reviews described it as "A rare book of healing on multiple levels."[7][8]
Awards and recognition
- 2001: The New York Times Notable Book of the Year[9] for Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten[10]
- 2006: New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age for Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship[11]
- 2008–09: James Weldon Johnson Fellowship in African American Studies, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library[12]
- 2010: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs[13]
- 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[14]