Jill Lepore
Lepore is also a staff writer at The New Yorker and one of the country’s leading public historians. Her first book, The Name of War, won the Bancroft Prize; her most recent non-fiction book, New York Burning, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is an elected member of the Society of American Historians and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians. She serves on the Board of Commissioners of the National Portrait Gallery. A co-founder of the magazine, Common-place, Lepore has also served as a consultant for the National Parks Service and for many other public history projects. Her scholarship focuses on language, cruelty, and race, and has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
