Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, studies the history of colonial, Revolutionary, and antebellum America. Her books include The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (1998), Winner of the Bancroft Prize; Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (1999); A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States (2002); New York Burning: Liberty and Slavery in an Eighteenth-Century City (2005), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Blindspot, a novel written jointly with Jane Kamensky (2008). She is currently writing a biography of Benjamin Franklin and his sister, Jane Mecom. Lepore is also a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Contact information: Jill Lepore, History Department