Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NPR - Time Magazine - The Washington Post - Entertainment Weekly - The Boston Globe

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians--a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, whose obscurity and poverty were matched only by her brother's fame and wealth but who, like him, was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator.

Making use of an astonishing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one extraordinary woman but an entire world.

Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/01/2014
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.25w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780307948830

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 67
New York Times Book Review 08/10/2014 pg. 28

About the Author
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; and The Mansion of Happiness, which was short-listed for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.