Emily Bernard

Emily Bernard is a professor of English and ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies at the University of
Vermont. Her publications include Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes
and Carl Van Vechten (2001), a New York Times Notable Bok of the Year, and Some of My
Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship (2004), which was chosen as a New York Public
Library Book for the Teen Age, 2006. Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (2009),
a book she coauthored with Deborah Willis, received an NAACP Image Award in spring 2010.
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White was published by Yale University Press in 2012.