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Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include, These Truths: A History of the United States (2018), an international bestseller, named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of the decade.
Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University [1] and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. Her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York ...
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- Bancroft Prize (1999)
Kemper was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the second of four children of Dorothy Ann "Dotty" (née Jannarone) and David Woods Kemper, a son of one of the wealthiest families in Missouri. [2] [3] Her father is the executive chairman of Commerce Bancshares , a bank holding company founded by the Kemper family.
Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. She serves as 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 writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She serves as the host of the podcast, The Last Archive.
Jul 8, 2013 · David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history.
David Woods Kemper. A native Kansas Citizen, David Woods Kemper was valedictorian of his class at Pembroke Country Day School where he enjoyed all forms of athletics, particularly horsemanship. After undergraduate study at Harvard and graduate work at Stanford, he enlisted in the army in 1942. His first assignment in the Calvary was followed by ...
