Lepore taught at the University of California-San Diego from 1995 to 1996 and at Boston University from 1996 before starting at Harvard in 2003.

in American Studies from Yale University in 1995, where she specialized in the history of early America. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. in English from Tufts University in 1987, an M.A. Eventually she left ROTC and changed her major to English. She entered college with a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship, starting as a math major. Lepore had no early desire to become a historian, but claims to have wanted to be a writer from the age of six. Her father was a junior high school principal, and her mother was an art teacher. Lepore was born and grew up in West Boylston, a small town outside Worcester, Massachusetts. The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014) is a winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize. Three of her books derive from her New Yorker essays: The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (2012), a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction The Story of America: Essays on Origins (2012), shortlisted for the PEN Literary Award for the Art of the Essay and The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle for American History (2010). Her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Journal of American History, Foreign Affairs, the Yale Law Journal, The American Scholar, and the American Quarterly. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is 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 Lepore (born August 27, 1966) is an American historian. University of California, San Diego 1995-1996

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