Author

Books by Jill Jonnes

Jill Jonnes is an American historian and urban writer based in Baltimore. She is the author of several books on American industrial and urban history, including South Bronx Rising, Conquering Gotham (about the building of Penn Station), and Eiffel's Tower. Her work focuses on the intersection of technology, capital, and urban development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and contributes to publications including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.