Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore
Nationality American
Institutions Harvard University (2003-)
Boston University
University of California, San Diego 1995-1996
Alma mater Tufts University
University of Michigan
Yale University
Notable awards Bancroft Prize (1999)

Jill Lepore (born 1966) is a professor of American history at Harvard University and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program.[1] She is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Scholar, and in scholarly journals including the Journal of American History, The American Historical Review, and American Quarterly.

Lepore's book New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Knopf, 2005) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.[2] Lepore's recent biography of Jane Franklin Mecom, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Biography

Youth and education

Lepore was born and grew up in West Boylston, a small town outside of Worcester, Massachusetts. Although she had no early desire to become a historian, she claims to have wanted to be a writer from the age of six. Lepore entered college with an ROTC scholarship, starting as a math major. Eventually she left ROTC and changed her major to English.[3]

Lepore earned her B.A. in English from Tufts University in 1987, an M.A. in American Culture from University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995, where she specialized in the history of early America.[4]

Career

Lepore taught at the University of California-San Diego from 1995 to 1996 and at Boston University from 1996 before starting at Harvard in 2003.[5][6] In addition to her books and articles on history, in 2008 Lepore published a historical novel, Blindspot, written with co-author Jane Kamensky, a history professor at Brandeis University. Previously, Lepore and Kamensky had co-founded an online history journal called Common-place.[3]

Lepore has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005.[7]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

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Books

Essays and reporting

Jill Lepore on E A Poe. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/04/27/the-humbug

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Garner, Dwight (October 23, 2014). "Books - Her Past Unchained ‘The Secret History of Wonder Woman,’ by Jill Lepore". New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.anisfield-wolf.org
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Public Historian - A Conversation with Jill Lepore". Humanities Magazine. September–October 2009.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Jill Lepore", Faculty, Harvard University, accessed 12 Oct 2010
  5. ↑ "Jill Lepore". Harvard Open Scholar. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Lepore, Jill (1999). The Name of War. Vintage. pp. Preface. ISBN 978-0375702624.
  7. ↑ "The New Yorker - Contributors". The New Yorker. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Hale Award Winners Webpage
  9. ↑ http://www.pen.org/content/pendiamonstein-spielvogel-award-art-essay-10000
  10. ↑ "2013 National Book Award Finalists Announced". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  11. ↑ "2013 National Book Awards". NBF. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  12. ↑ Bill Ott (June 30, 2013). "Richard Ford and Timothy Egan Win Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.". Booklist. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  13. ↑ Annalisa Pesek (July 3, 2013). "2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction". Library Journal. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  14. ↑ "ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals". Publishers Weekly. April 22, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  15. ↑ "A new class of American Fellows". Arts Beat Blog. The New York Times. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2015.

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