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The Author’s Corner with Jane E. Calvert
Jane E. Calvert is Director and Chief Editor of The John Dickinson Writings Project. This interview is based on her new book, Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson (Oxford University Press, 2024).
JF: What led you to write Penman of the Founding?
JC: In short, the astounding dearth of information on John Dickinson compelled me to write it.
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Before now, only three biographies had been written on him (in 1891, 1983, and 2013), none of which is complete or completely accurate. Since about 2010, I had been planning to write one as the final component of a tripart research agenda that began with my first book, Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson (2009) and has been ongoing with my John Dickinson Writings Project (JDP).
The impetus to produce the biography ahead of schedule was when Gov. John Carney of Delaware asked me to prioritize it, and the Delaware legislature granted me