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Executive Director Kai Bird signs contract with Scriber’s to write biography of Roy Cohn

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 [...]

2022-11-06T18:28:37+00:00November 6th, 2022|Alumni, Center News, Events, Uncategorized|

Jane Kamensky, Abigail Santamaria and Avi Steinberg Awarded NEH Grants

Congratulations to Jane Kamensky, Abigail Santamaria and Avi Steiberg, who recently received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Current Leon Levy Fellow Kamensky for her work on a life of Candida Royalle, Former Fellow Santamaria for her continued work on a biography of Madeleine L’Engle, and Current Fellow Steinberg for his work [...]

2022-09-28T16:24:49+00:00September 7th, 2022|Alumni, Center News, Events, Fellows and Fellowships, Uncategorized|

Former Leon Levy Fellow Rebecca Donner Wins National Book Critics Circle Award

Rebecca Donner, a Leon Levy Fellow in 2018 - 2019, received the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days: the True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance. Donner's biography, which she worked on during her year as a Leon Levy Fellow, was [...]

2022-03-28T21:08:03+00:00March 28th, 2022|Alumni, Center News, Events, Featured Book/Biography|

The 2021 – 2022 Biography Fellows

Kai Bird, the Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, announced today the award of seven resident fellowships at the Graduate Center, including the third Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow for a biography on a figure from science and a Dissertation Fellowship. Mr. Bird, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, is most recently the author [...]

2021-04-08T14:18:06+00:00April 8th, 2021|Center News, Events, Fellows and Fellowships|

BIO’s Editorial Excellence Award, Nov 9, 7 pm ET

Gayatri Patnaik will receive BIO’s 2020 Editorial Excellence Award on Monday evening, November 9, at an online event featuring three of her authors: Imani Perry, Marcus Rediker, and Jeanne Theoharis, joined by literary agent Tanya McKinnon. Patnaik is Associate Director and Editorial Director of Beacon Press, where for 18 years she has edited and published many books on race, ethnicity, [...]

2020-11-03T04:33:09+00:00November 3rd, 2020|Center News, Events|

Nancy Greenspan on Klaus Fuchs, in conversation with Executive Director Kai Bird on C-SPAN, Sept 6, 2020 3pm ET

On Sunday, September 6 at 3pm ET, on its American History TV, C-SPAN3 will televise Nancy Greenspan discussing the life of nuclear spy Klaus Fuchs with Executive Director, Kai Bird. This discussion was originally broadcast on August 6, 2020 at 6 pm on Crowdcast. (Here is the link to the Leon Levy Center's crowdcast channel: [...]

2020-09-02T01:19:33+00:00September 2nd, 2020|Alumni, Center News, Events, Fellows and Fellowships|

2020 – 2021 Biography Fellows Announced

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 second Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow for a biography on a figure from science. Mr. Bird, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, is presently finishing his own project, a biography of [...]

2020-04-04T23:20:33+00:00April 4th, 2020|Alumni, Center News, Events, Fellows and Fellowships|

Biography Fellow Channing Joseph Wins Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant

 Channing Joseph was awarded a prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for his in-progress biography, House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens. The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 is awarded to writers in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction. House of Swann is the story of William Dorsey Swann, [...]

2019-11-13T21:29:04+00:00November 13th, 2019|Alumni, Center News, Events, Fellows and Fellowships|
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