Adam Shatz, whose biography of Frantz Fanon, The Rebel's Clinic: the Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in January of 2024, was a awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the General Nonfiction category. https://www.gf.org/announcements/?bbeml=tp-ZkYw6eLCT0GhJsJAvyLCeA.jgWpsFneek0KcDk69DSwkNw.rXsm7mMCkbkai7MPtBE9CCA.lQ3wFuYAHika0y171P5OqbA
Kai Bird, the Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, announced today the award of five resident fellowships at the Graduate Center, including the sixth Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow for a biography on a figure from science. Mr. Bird, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, is most recently the author of The Outlier: The [...]
Executive Director Kai Bird has won the BIO Award, an honor bestowed annually by the Biographers International Organization, to "a distinguished colleague who has made significant contributions to the art and craft of biography." Director Bird will deliver the keynote address at the 2024 BIO Conference on Friday, May 17. https://biographersinternational.org/news/kai-bird-wins-the-2024-bio-award/
The Biographers International Organization has awarded former LLCB Fellow Krithika Varagur a Robert and Ina Caro Travel/Research Fellowship for her group biography The Singh Princesses: Three Sisters at the End of Empire.
Former Biography Fellow Justin Gifford was awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanties grant for his new biography-in-process, Time Considered as a Helix: The Life of Samuel R. Delany.
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation announced the recipients of the third annual Silvers-Dudley Prizes, which recognize “outstanding achievement in literary criticism, arts writing, and journalism.” Former Fellow Krithika Varagur (2022 - 2023), along with Fintan O'Toole, was awarded a prize for her journalism, which recognizes "achievement in reporting, long-form political analysis, or commentary." Congratulations, Krithika!
Former Fellow Nicholas Boggs was awarded a Whiting Award in Nonfiction for his biography-in-progress of James Baldwin https://www.whiting.org/content/nicholas-boggs-0#/
On Thursday, October 26, Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center Kai Bird will address the Oxford Union on the topic of nuclear power.
American Prometheus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Oppenheimer by Executive Director Kai Bird and Marty Sherwin, first published in 2006, has become an international bestseller on the heels of being used as the basis for Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film Oppenheimer. Profiles of Bird have appeared in the New York Times Magazine (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/books/oppenheimer-american-prometheus-sherwin-bird.html) and he [...]
From Publisher's Weekly: "Scribner v-p and executive editor Rick Horgan bought world rights to Kai Bird’s American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn and the World He Made for mid-six figures in a five-house auction. Bird is a coauthor of American Prometheus, the Pulitzer Prize–winning 2005 biography of Robert J. Oppenheimer. Scribner described American Scoundrel as a portrait of the titular “super-lawyer, fixer, and [...]