Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a bestselling author. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, where she writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History for We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (Liveright, 2025). Her books include This America: The Case for the Nation (Liveright, 2019); The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Knopf, 2014), which was a national bestseller and winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize; The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (Knopf, 2012), a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Knopf, 2005), winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best nonfiction book on race and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (Knopf, 2013), Time magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, and a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction; and her first book, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (Knopf, 1998), which won the Bancroft Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, and the Berkshire Prize.