In 2021, she was named the winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. In 2020, she published her fourteenth book, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future. These Truths: A History of the United States, was an international bestseller named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of the decade. The Secret History of Wonder Woman, described as a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history, won the American History Book Prize. Book of Ages was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her first book, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, won the Bancroft Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of American history writing. Lepore’s New Yorker essays reflect her many interests, as well as her attention to and probing of the historical record: “ When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?” “ How Impeachment Ended Up in the Constitution”, “ The History of Loneliness”, “ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Great Equalizer”, “ What Our Contagion Fables Are Really About”, “ The Last Time Democracy Almost Died”, “ Are Robot’s Competing for Your Job?” “ Herman Melville at Home”.Īs an essayist and author, Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is also a bestselling author and journalist who once wrote 'History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence.' James Gleick has said of her, 'Lepore is a brilliant and prolific historian with an eye for unusual and revealing stories.' Susan Orlean noted, 'Everything Jill Lepore writes is distinguished by intelligence, eloquence, and fresh insight.' Her popular podcasts explore the themes “Who Killed Truth?” and “The Rise of Doubt.” Jill Lepore is a writer and professor of history whose essays and books explore absences and asymmetries in the historical record.

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