New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Jill Lepore (born 1966) is an American historian, journalist, and professor at Harvard University, where she holds the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professorship of American History and also teaches at Harvard Law School; she is a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker. Her most notable works include the international bestseller These Truths: A History of the United States (2018), The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014), Book of Ages (2013), and The Name of War (1998), with major awards such as the Bancroft Prize, Anisfield-Wolf Award, Mark Lynton History Prize, and American History Book Prize, among others including multiple National Book Award and Pulitzer finalist nods Harvard Bio.