Jill Lepore | The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15 General Admission, $7 Students
Historian and chair of Harvard’s History and Literature Program, Jill Lepore is the author of the Carnegie Medal finalist The Mansion of Happiness; The Story of America, an examination of the nature of history and the shaping of its narrative; New York Burning, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, recipient of the Bancroft Prize; and the National Book Award finalist Book of Ages, a detailed portrait of Jane Franklin, Benjamin’s beloved sister. Her new book reveals the feminist origin of Wonder Woman, one of the most popular female superheroes of all time.
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-567-4341