Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and chair of Harvard’s History and Literature Program. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker.
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best non-fiction book on race, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War (Knopf, 1998), winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, and the Berkshire Prize and a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Award.
A co-founder of the magazine Common-place, Lepore’s essays and reviews have also appeared in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, American Scholar, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Daily Beast, the Journal of American History and American Quarterly. Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Charles Warren Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She has served as a consultant for the National Park Service and currently serves on the boards of the National Portrait Gallery and the Society of American Historians.
Jill lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Books in order of publication:
The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1998.
Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000.
A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2002.
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-century Manhattan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2005.
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle Over American History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2010.
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2012.
The Story of America: Essays on Origins. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2012.
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2013.
The Secret History of Wonder Woman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2014.
Joe Gould’s Teeth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2016.
These Truths: A History of the United States. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2018.
This America: The Case for the Nation. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2019.
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future. New York: Liveright. 2020.
The Deadline. New York: Liveright. 2023.
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