The Humanities Institute's Public Humanities Lecture Series to Feature Jill Lepore, 4/24

The Humanities Institute's Public Humanities Lecture Series features Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard College and staff writer at the New Yorker on Wednesday, April 24, at 3:30 pm at the Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater. Lepore will discuss her new book, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (Knopf in 2013), a biography of Ben Franklin's sister. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.

Lepore's books include The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (Knopf, 2012); The Story of America: Essays on Origins (Princeton, 2012); The Whites of Their Eyes (Princeton, 2010), a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice; and New York Burning (Knopf, 2005), winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best non-fiction book on race, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, among others.

The event is free and open to all. No RSVP is necessary.

"Ms. Lepore is a gifted historian. Her voice is always fresh, her prose engaging and her insights original."
Fergus M. Bordewich, Wall Street Journal

Co-sponsored by Ohio State's Department of History and the Wexner Center for the Arts