Director Kai Bird Announces 5 New Biography Fellows for 2025 – 2026
Leon Levy Center Press Release 2025- 2026
Former Fellow Adam Shatz Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction
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
The 5 biography fellows for 2024 – 2025
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 [...]
Kai Bird Wins Prestigious BIO Award
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/
Former Fellow Krithika Varagur awarded Robert and Ina Caro Travel/Research Fellowship
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 Fellow Justin Gifford 2024 Awarded NEH Grant for Delany biography
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.
Former Fellow Krithika Varagur Wins 2024 Silvers-Dudley Prize in Journalism
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 Wins Whiting Award
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#/
Executive Director Kai Bird to Debate Nuclear Power at the Oxford Union
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 #1 on NY Times Bestseller List
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 [...]