Professor Jill Lepore

Short Bio

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include "These Truths: A History of the United States" (2018), an international bestseller, named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of the decade. A revised edition will be published in 2026. Her 2023 book, "The Deadline", won the PEN prize for the Art of the Essay. "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution", a New York Times bestseller, was published in 2025. Her next book, "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State", will be published in 2026.

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