Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist, the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2005. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics, and several of her books grew out of her New Yorker essays, including The Mansion of Happiness and This America. Her book We the People, a history of the U.S. Constitution, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2026. She also wrote The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, a book about bureaucracy and control in modern life.
