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. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995, where she specialized in the history of early America. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990 and a Ph.D. Īfter graduating from Tufts, Lepore had a temporary job working as a secretary at the Harvard Business School before returning to school. Eventually she left ROTC and changed her major to English. She participated in Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Tufts University, starting as a math major. Lepore had no early desire to become a historian but claims to have wanted to be a writer from the age of six. Her father was a junior high school principal and her mother was an art teacher. Lepore was born on Aug and grew up in West Boylston, a small town outside Worcester, Massachusetts.
Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014) won the 2015 American History Book Prize. Three of her books derive from her New Yorker essays: The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (2012), a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction The Story of America: Essays on Origins (2012), shortlisted for the PEN Literary Award for the Art of the Essay and The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle for American History (2010). Her essays and reviews have also appeared in 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. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She 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. Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist.
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