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

Author Bio: Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is an acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose many books include New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; The Mansion of Happiness, shortlisted for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. These Truths was named a best book of the year by the New York Times and Washington Post. She is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker.