![]() Lepore’s work for The New Yorker has allowed her to develop an engaging narrative style that relies heavily on exact detail and clever metaphors. More successfully than any other American historian of her generation, she has gained a wide general readership without compromising her academic standing. Since 2005, she has regularly contributed essays and reviews to The New Yorker, where she is a staff writer. The David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard, she has written eleven books over the last twenty years, among them a Bancroft Prize winner and finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Jill Lepore has achieved singular prominence as an American historian. ![]() Titus Kaphar: Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother, 2014 from the exhibition ‘UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light,’ which includes work by Kaphar and Ken Gonzales-Day.It is on view at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., through January 6, 2019. Titus Kaphar/Private Collection/Jack Shainman Gallery, New York ![]()
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