Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper 41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a

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Professor Jill Lepore, National Book Award finalist and author of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, will discuss her work reconstituting the lost library of Benjamin Franklin's sister Jane (1712-1794). Most of what Jane read, she borrowed, but she was an avid and discriminating reader, writing to her brother, "I Read as much as I Dare."
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper 41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer rand paul Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; The Mansion of Happiness, a finalist for the Carnegie Medal; The Whites of Their Eyes, a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice; and The Story of America. Her 2008 novel, Blindspot, written jointly with historian Jane Kamensky, was also a Times Book Review Editors rand paul Choice. In October 2013, Book of Ages, Lepore s landmark biography of Benjamin Franklin s youngest sister, was published and nominated for the National Book Award.
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