Garry Trudeau is a comic writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the Doonesbury cartoon. First launched in 1970, the groundbreaking comic currently appears in nearly 1,200 daily and Sunday newspaper
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Garry Trudeau is a comic writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the Doonesbury cartoon. First launched in 1970, the groundbreaking comic currently appears in nearly 1,200 daily and Sunday newspaper clients in the U.S. and abroad. For over five decades, Trudeau has been on the cutting edge of political content. In 2013 he created “Alpha House”– a political sitcom, the first streaming-only production of Amazon Studios. He has contributed writing to publications such as, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Time Magazine.
As an essayist and author, Jill Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. Lepore is the David Woods Kemper Professor of American History, and Affiliate Professor of Law
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As an essayist and author, Jill Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. Lepore is the David Woods Kemper Professor of American History, and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and is host of the podcast “The Last Archive.” New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Lively, fun, and argumentative, Lepore’s books have been described as surprising and enlightening, as well as elegant, beautifully written, and intellectually rigorous.
