Jill Lepore

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Full Name	Jill Lepore
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Aug 27, 1966(1966-08-27)
Age	58
Birthplace	West Boylston
Country	United States
Horoscope	Leo

Jill Lepore Biography

Jill Lepore is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on August 27, 1966 in West Boylston, United States. Jill Lepore (born August 27 in 1996) was an American historian from the United States. Her title is David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has been contributing since 2005. Her writings cover American law, history literature, politics, and law.

Her reviews and essays are also published on The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Journal of American History, Foreign Affairs, the Yale Law Journal, The American Scholar and The American Quarterly. Three of her novels are derived of her New Yorker essays: The Mansion of Happiness An History of Life and Death (2012) A finalist of The Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; The Story of America: Essays on Origins (2012) Shortlisted to be a finalist for the PEN Literary Award for the The Art of the Essay; and The Whites of Their Eyes the American Tea Party’s Revolution as well as The Battle for American History (2010). Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014) won the 2015 American History Book Prize.

Lepore has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005. She posts a bibliography with sources for some of her New Yorker articles on her website. In the June 23, 2014 issue she sharply criticized disruption theory, calling it “founded on panic, anxiety, and shaky evidence.” The response of one of those whose work she discusses, fellow Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen, was that her article was “a criminal act of dishonesty—at Harvard, of all places.”

From 2011 until from 2011 to Lepore was a visiting scholar for from 2011 to 2013, she was a visiting scholar of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Lepore has presented the Theodore H. White Lecture on the Press and Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (2015) The John L. Hatfield Lecture at Lafayette College (2015), the Lewis Walpole Library Lecture at Yale (2013) The Harry F. Camp Memorial Lecture at Stanford (2013) and the University of Kansas Humanities Lecture (2013) and the Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures at the New York Public Library (2012) and the Kephardt lecture in Villanova (2011) as well as The Stafford-Little Lecture in Princeton (2010) as well as the Walker Horizon Lecture at DePauw (2009). She is President of the Society of American Historians and an Emeritus Commissioner of Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. She has served as an advisor and contributer to documentaries and public historical projects. The three-part story “The Search for Big Brown” was broadcast on The New Yorker Radio Hour in the year 2015.

Jill Lepore Net Worth

Jill Lepore is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jill Lepore 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduation at Tufts, Lepore had a temporary job as a secretary for the Harvard Business School before returning to the school. She graduated with an M.A. on American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and she earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995. She was a specialist in the early history of America.

Lepore was a professor at the university of California-SanDiego from 1995 to 1996 as well as in Boston University beginning in 1996 and joined Harvard at the beginning of 2003. Alongside her books and writings on history In 2008 Lepore published a novel about the past, Blindspot, co-written with Jane Kamensky, then a professor of history of history at Brandeis University and now Professor of History and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. In the past, Lepore and Kamensky had founded an online journal of history called Common-place. Lepore is now a instructor of Harvard University, where she holds an endowed chair . She also is a teacher of American historical politics. She focuses on the absence of evidence in the historical records as well as in the writings of.

As of 2014, Lepore lived in Cambridge with her husband and three sons. She lives just outside Porter Square in North Cambridge.

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Facts & Trivia

Jill Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jill Lepore celebrates birthday on August 27 of every year.

Top Facts about Jill Lepore

1. Jill Lepore is an American historian and writer.
2. She was born in 1966 in West Boylston, Massachusetts.
3. Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University.
4. She has written several books, including “These Truths” and “The Secret History of Wonder Woman.”
5. Lepore is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.
6. She has won numerous awards for her writing and scholarship.
7. Lepore’s research focuses on the intersection of politics, culture, and technology.
8. She has been a frequent commentator on television news programs.
9. Lepore holds degrees from Tufts University and Yale University.
10. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide.

How many kids does Jill Lepore have?

Lepore lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and their three sons.

What is These Truths about?

Written in elegiac prose, Lepore’s groundbreaking investigation places truth itself―a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence ―at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas―”these truths,” Jefferson called them―political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people.

Where was Jill Lepore born?

West Boylston, MA

Does Jill Lepore have a podcast?

Sifting through mountains of dusty records to piece together stories is what historian and author Jill Lepore, Harvard’s David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, does for a living. In her new podcast, “ The Last Archive ,” Lepore is hunting for clues again, this time to solve a murder mystery.

What does Lepore mean in Italian?

Lepore is an Italian surname (stressed on the first syllable in Italian), a regional variant of the surname Lepre, meaning hare , originally a nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person.