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Jill Jonnes is an author and historian with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She has received awards from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is the author of South Bronx Rising and Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams. She lives with her family in Baltimore, Maryland.

Books by Jill Jonnes

Eiffel's Tower For Young People

The latest in Triangle Square's For Young People series, this adaptation of Jill Jonnes's riveting history of the Eiffel Tower and the 1889 World's Fair in Paris is sure to capture the imagination of young readers.

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Empires of Light

For readers of TITAN and MORGAN and EMPIRE, this is a rich biography of America's Gilded Age and the birth of the age of Electricity.

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