Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005.
13 Facts About Jill Lepore
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Jill Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics.
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Jill Lepore was born on August 27,1966 and grew up in West Boylston, a small town outside Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Jill Lepore's father was a junior high school principal and her mother was an art teacher.
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Jill Lepore had no early desire to become a historian but claims to have wanted to be a writer from the age of six.
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Jill Lepore participated in Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Tufts University, starting as a math major.
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Jill Lepore taught at the University of California, San Diego from 1995 to 1996 and at Boston University beginning in 1996; she started at Harvard in 2003.
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Jill Lepore is a history professor at Harvard University, where she holds an endowed chair and teaches American political history.
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Jill Lepore focuses on missing evidence in historical records and articles.
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Jill Lepore has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005.
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From 2011 to 2013, Jill Lepore was a visiting scholar of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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Jill Lepore is the president of the Society of American Historians and an Emeritus Commissioner of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
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Jill Lepore has been a consultant and contributor to documentary and public history projects.