Emily Bernard
{{Short description|American writer (born 1967)}}
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Emily Bernard (born 1967){{WorldCat|id=lccn-n00026449|name=Bernard, Emily 1967-}}. is an American writer and the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont.{{cite web|title=Emily Bernard, Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor Carnegie Fellow |publisher=College of Arts and Sciences : University of Vermont|url=https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profile/emily-bernard|website=www.uvm.edu|access-date=September 28, 2024|language=en}}
Early life and education
Emily Bernard was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. She earned a BA and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.{{cite web|title=Emily Bernard|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/cr-100321/emily-bernard|website=HarperCollins US|publisher=Harper Collins|access-date=30 November 2017|language=en}}
Publications
The 2004 anthology Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships, was edited and introduced by Bernard.{{cite web|url=https://www.uvm.edu/news/story/emily-bernard|title=Crossing the line|first=Emily|last=Bernard|website=uvm.edu {{!}} University Communications|publisher=University of Vermont|date=Winter 2005|access-date=September 28, 2024}} 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.{{cite journal|url=https://theamericanscholar.org/my-name-is-emily/|title=My Name Is Emily|first=Emily|last=Bernard|journal=The American Scholar|date=March 28, 2024|access-date=September 28, 2024}} The essay collection Black Is the Body was among Maureen Corrigan's "Favorite Books of 2019",{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784376769/maureen-corrigans-favorite-books-of-2019-here-are-10-unputdownable-reads|title=Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books Of 2019: Here Are 10 Unputdownable Reeds|work=Fresh Air|publisher=NPR|date=December 3, 2019|access-date=September 28, 2024}} and Kirkus Reviews described it as "A rare book of healing on multiple levels."{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/emily-bernard/black-is-the-body/|title=Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine|website=Kirkus Reviews|date=October 22, 2018|access-date=September 28, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uvm.edu/news/story/npr-names-professor-emily-bernards-book-unputdownable-read-2019|title=NPR names professor Emily Bernard’s book an 'unputdownable' read of 2019|work=UVM Today {{!}} University Communications|publisher=University of Vermont|date=December 4, 2019|access-date=September 28, 2024}}
Awards and recognition
- 2001: The New York Times Notable Book of the Year{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/notable-books.html|title=NOTABLE BOOKS|date=2001-12-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-11-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} for Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/books/books-of-the-times-advice-with-avocados-a-letter-writing-friendship.html|title=BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Advice With Avocados: A Letter-Writing Friendship|last=Maslin|first=Janet|date=2001-03-05|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-11-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
- 2006: New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age for Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship{{Cite web|url=http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~sycamore/sr/reviewbernard.htm|title=Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships by Emily Bernard {{!}} The Sycamore Review {{!}} Literature, Opinion, and the Arts|website=web.ics.purdue.edu|first=Terri S.|last=Jackson|access-date=2017-11-30}}
- 2008–09: James Weldon Johnson Fellowship in African American Studies, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library{{Cite web|url=http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs-events/visiting-fellow/emily-bernard|title=Emily Bernard {{!}} Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library|website=beinecke.library.yale.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-11-30}}
- 2010: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs{{Cite web|url=https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/emily_bernard|title=Emily Bernard|website=www.uvm.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-02-17}}
- 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{{cite web | title=The Christopher Isherwood Prize | website=The Christopher Isherwood Foundation | url=http://www.isherwoodfoundation.org/prizes.html | access-date=27 September 2021 | archive-date=26 September 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926112745/http://www.isherwoodfoundation.org/prizes.html | url-status=dead }}
Selected works
- Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten (2001), Knopf
- Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships (2004), Amistad/HarperCollins, {{ISBN|0-06-008276-3}}
- Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs with Deborah Willis (2009), W.W. Norton
- Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White (2010), Yale University Press{{cite news|last1=McCauley|first1=Mary Carole|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-book-vanvechten-20121008-story.html|title=The white advocate for the Harlem Renaissance|date=8 October 2012|work=baltimoresun.com|accessdate=30 November 2017|publisher=The Baltimore Sun}}
- Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine (2019), Knopf
References
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External links
- Official website: [https://www.emilybernard.com/ Emily Bernard]
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Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:University of Vermont faculty
Category:American women academics
Category:Writers from Nashville, Tennessee
Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers
Category:Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Category:American women non-fiction writers