Lepore to deliver Radcliffe lecture Sept. 10

Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, was named the runner-up of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Prize, one of the 2013 PEN Literary Awards, for her book “The Story of America.” Lepore, whose latest book is “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” will speak at the Radcliffe Institute on Sept. 10 in a talk titled “Jane Franklin’s Spectacles: Or, the Education of Benjamin Franklin’s Sister.”