We may know about Jane Franklin only because of her famous brother, but he is not why she matters.” -Joanna Scutts, Washington Post Her importance, as Lepore’s portrait memorably shows, lies in her ordinariness-her learning thwarted by circumstance, but her intelligence shaped by her uniquely female experience. “Luminous….Lepore gives us a woman in the flesh, with no hints and hedges about what she must, or might, have felt….Jane emerges as witty, curious, and resilient in the face of unimaginable grief, yet she is not an unsung hero of the revolution, a forgotten Abigail Adams. “Jane Franklin’s indomitable voice and hungry, searching intellect shine through these pages she will not be forgotten, and the world is richer for it.” - Time Magazine, Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year ** The Week Best Nonfiction Books of 2013** ** Time Magazine #1 Nonfiction Book of 2013** The lecture is free and open to the public.** The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013** In October 2013, Book of Ages, Lepore’s landmark biography of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister, was published and nominated for the National Book Award.
Her 2008 novel, Blindspot, written jointly with historian Jane Kamensky, was also a Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her books include New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize The Mansion of Happiness, a finalist for the Carnegie Medal The Whites of Their Eyes, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and The Story of America.
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
Most of what Jane read, she borrowed, but she was an avid and discriminating reader, writing to her brother, "I Read as much as I Dare." Professor Jill Lepore, National Book Award finalist and author of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, will discuss her work reconstituting the lost library of Benjamin Franklin's sister Jane (1712-1794).
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