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]

Emily Bernard was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She earned a BA and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.^[3]

• 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]

• 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