Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is a highly accomplished historian, professor, and author. She currently holds the position of Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University and a Professor of American History. In addition to her academic roles, Lepore is also the host of The Last Archive podcast and a contributor at The New Yorker. She has written several influential books, including the international bestseller "These Truths: A History of the United States," which was published in 2018. This novel made the list of the top ten nonfiction works of the decade by Time magazine.

Lepore has also received numerous accolades for her writing. She is a winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best non-fiction book on race, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her book "The Name of War" won the Bancroft Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, and the Berkshire Prize, and was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Award. Lepore is also a co-founder of the magazine Common-place and has had her essays and reviews appear in various publications such as the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Washington Post.

Lepore's research has been funded by several prestigious organizations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She has served as a consultant for the National Park Service and currently serves on the boards of the National Portrait Gallery and the Society of American Historians. Lepore received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale in 1995 and has since established herself as a prominent figure in the academic and literary world. She currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.