Historian, author, and essayist Jill Lepore will discuss the challenge of writing American history during a time of division on November 30, in McCosh Hall’s Room 50.

The David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, Lepore has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2005. Her books include The Name of War (1998), which won the Bancroft Prize; New York Burning (2005), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history; The Story of America (2012), which was short-listed for the PEN Literary Award for the Art of the Essay; Book of Ages (2013), a finalist for the National Book Award; The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014) and Joe Gould’s Teeth (2016).

This event, sponsored by the Spencer Trask Lecture Series, is free and open to the public with no ticket or reservation required. For further information on this and other events in the series, see lectures.princeton.edu.

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