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Jill Lepore
Professor of American History at Harvard, Staff Writer at the New Yorker & Bestselling Author of "These Truths: A History of the United States"
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the international bestseller "These Truths: A History of the United States" (2018), named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of the decade. Her 2020 book, "IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future," was longlisted for the National Book Award, and "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Knopf, 2014) was a national bestseller and winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize. Her latest book is "The Deadline." She is currently working on a long-term research project called Amend, an NEH-funded data collection of attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution.
Much of Lepore's scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the histories and technologies of evidence. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, the humanities, and American political history. Her audio storytelling includes "The Last Archive," "Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket," "The Search for Big Brown," and the audiobook, "Who Killed Truth?" In 2024, she was the lead author of an amicus brief of American historians in the Trump disqualification case before the Supreme Court.
Lepore has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005, writing about American history, law, literature, and politics. Her essays and reviews have also appeared in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Journal of American History, Foreign Affairs, the Yale Law Journal, American Scholar, and the American Quarterly; have been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latvian, Swedish, French, Chinese, and Japanese; and have been widely anthologized, including in collections of the best legal writing and the best technology writing.
Lepore is the recipient of many honors, awards, and honorary degrees, including from Yale, NYU, and Tufts. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award; the National Magazine Award; and, twice, for the Pulitzer Prize; and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, for the best non-fiction book on race. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the American Philosophical Society. Her research has been funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Charles Warren Center, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2021, she was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought.
Lepore is a past president of the Society of American Historians and a former Commissioner of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. She has been a consultant and contributor to a number of documentary and public history projects. Among her interviews, she has appeared on Fresh Air and on the Colbert Report.
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Hidden: A History of Mystery, Secrecy, and Privacy
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jane Franklin’s Spectacles: Or, the Education of Benjamin Franklin’s Sister
Benjamin Franklin famously wrote the story of his life, the tale of a printer's apprentice who runs away to become a statesman and a scientist. In this illustrated lecture, Lepore tells the story of Franklin's long-forgotten sister, Jane, and meditates on what it means to write history not from what can be found, but from what has been lost.
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