Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore at Upstairs on the Square

Start: 03/04/2010 5:00 pm

End: 03/04/2010 6:45 pm

Please Join Porter Square Books and PEN/New England for Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore at Upstairs on the Square.

Jane Kamensky is the Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization and Chair of the Department of History at Brandeis University. Kamensky is the author of The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse, a finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize. Her other publications include Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England; and The Colonial Mosaic: American Women, 1600-1760.

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History and winner of the New York City Book Prize.

Please note: this is an off-site event to be held at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge, MA.

About PEN New England

PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of published authors, aspiring writers, and all who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is a branch of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest international literary organization and also the oldest human rights organization in the world.