Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore
Lepore in 2020
Born	(1966-08-27) August 27, 1966 (age 57) West Boylston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Children	3
Awards	Bancroft Prize (1999)
Academic background
Education	Tufts University (BA) University of Michigan (MA) Yale University (PhD)
Academic work
Institutions	Harvard University Boston University University of California, San Diego
Website	scholar.harvard.edu/jlepore

Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University^[1] and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics.

Her essays and reviews have also appeared in

Lepore gathers historical evidence that allows scholars to study and analyze political processes and behaviors. Her articles are often both historical and political. She has said, "History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence."[14]

Lepore has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005.

In February 2022, Lepore was one of 38 Harvard faculty to sign a letter to The Harvard Crimson defending Professor John Comaroff, who had been found to have violated the university's sexual and professional conduct policies. The letter defended Comaroff as "an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen" and expressed dismay over his being sanctioned by the university.^[18] After students filed a lawsuit with detailed allegations of Comaroff's actions and the university's failure to respond, Lepore was one of several signatories to say that she wished to retract her signature.^[19]

Selected awards and honors

• 1998 Elected member of the American Antiquarian Society^[20]
• 1998
  Phi Beta Kappa Society for The Name of War^[10]
• 1999 Bancroft Prize for The Name of War^[10]
• 2006 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (nonfiction) for New York Burning
• 2014 Elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[21]
• 2014 Mark Lynton History Prize for Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin^[22]
• 2014 Elected to the American Philosophical Society^[23]
• 2015
  American History Book Prize for The Secret History of Wonder Woman^[2]
• 2021
  Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought^[24]

• The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1998.
  ISBN 978-0-679-44686-6
  .
• Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000.
  ISBN 978-0-19-510513-1
  .
• A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-375-40449-8
  .
• New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-century Manhattan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2005.
  ISBN 978-1-4000-4029-2
  .
• The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2010.
  ISBN 978-0-691-15027-7
  .
• The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2012.
  ISBN 978-0-307-59299-6
  .
• The Story of America: Essays on Origins. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2012.
  ISBN 978-0-691-15399-5
  .
• Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2013.
  ISBN 978-0-307-95834-1
  .
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2014.
  ISBN 978-0-385-35404-2.^[25]
• Joe Gould's Teeth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2016.
  ISBN 978-1-101-94758-6
  .
• ISBN 978-0-393-63524-9
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• This America: The Case for the Nation. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2019.
  ISBN 978-1-63149-641-7
  .
• If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future. New York: Liveright. 2020.
  ISBN 9781631496110
  .
• The Deadline. New York:
  ISBN 978-1-63149-612-7.^[26]