Max Rosenn Lecture Series in Law and Humanities presents Jill Lepore
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sunday, Mar 26, 2023 2pm
Location
Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts at Wilkes University
Details
Jill Lepore is a writer and professor of history whose essays and books explore absences and asymmetries in the historical record. 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.”
Lepore is the David Woods Kemper Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Other essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Affairs, Yale Law Journal, American Scholar, and American Quarterly; her works have been widely translated and anthologized.
Lively, funny, and argumentative, Lepore’s books have been described as surprising and enlightening, as well as elegant, sobering, beautifully written and intellectually rigorous.
