Emily Bernard

Early life and education

Awards and Recognition

• NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs
• James Weldon Johnson Fellowship in African American Studies, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
• New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age for Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship
• New York Times Notable Book of the Year for Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

  Additional works

• Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, Knopf
• Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White, Yale University Press
• Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs with Deborah Willis, W.W. Norton
• Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships, HarperCollins
• Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, Knopf