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Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky is the author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize, and professor emerita of history at Harvard University. She is the president of Monticello/the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and has previously served as director of the Schlesinger Library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky is the author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize, and professor emerita of history at Harvard University. She is the president of Monticello/the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and has previously served as director of the Schlesinger Library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Awards

Winner — New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize, 2017

Shortlisted — George Washington Book Prize, 2017

Winner — Massachusetts Book Award, 2017

Winner — James Bradford Biography Prize, 2016

Shortlisted — PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, 2017

Winner — Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, 2017

Shortlisted — Marfield Prize for Arts Writing, 2017

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2024

Books by Jane Kamensky