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 the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History. Candida Royalle was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Critic’s Circle Award for Biography. The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America’s First Banking Collapse was a finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize. She is 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.
