Beam’s Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital explores McLean Hospital’s place in the social and cultural history of New England as well as the history of psychotherapy. Īuthor of seven books, Beam has written two novels set in Russia, Fellow Travelers and The Americans Are Coming! His nonfiction works span the topics of literary history, religion, and mental health. A John Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University from 1996–1997, Beam also worked for Newsweek and BusinessWeek, served as the Moscow and Boston bureau chief, and has written for the International Herald Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, Slate, and Forbes/FYI.
Lepore is a past president of the Society of American Historians and former Commissioner of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.Īlex Beam is a journalist and author, whose columns were featured in the Boston Globe for 25 years. Much of Lepore's scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the histories and technologies of evidence.
Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, where she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, the humanities, and American political history. Her essays and reviews have also appeared in the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Journal of American History, Foreign Affairs, Yale Law Journal, American Scholar, and American Quarterly have been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latvian, Swedish, French, Chinese, and Japanese and have been widely anthologized, including in collections of the best legal writing and the best technology writing. Lepore has been contributing to the New Yorker since 2005, writing about American history, law, literature, and politics. Her newest book, The Deadline, will be published in 2023. She has written thirteen nonfiction books including These Truths: A History of the United States, which was named one of Time magazine’s top ten nonfiction books of the decade The Name of War, Bancroft Prize winner New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award for best nonfiction book on race and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and The Secret History of Wonder Woman, 2015 American History Book Prize winner. Jill Lepore is a historian, teacher, scholar, award-winning author, and staff writer at the New Yorker.
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