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, [...]
On April 22, 2019, Executive Director Kai Bird announced the award of five resident fellowships, including the first Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow for a biography on a figure from science for 2019-2020. Each resident fellow receives a $72,000 grant, research assistance, writing space and full access to research facilities. David Greenberg, a Professor [...]
In Fall 2019, the Graduate Center will inaugurate a M.A. Program in Biography and Memoir. Students in the program will benefit from the intellectual life of the Leon Levy Center for Biography. Merit scholarships are available.
The Leon Levy Center for Biography has been awarded a three-year grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund a $72,000 annual fellowship dedicated to biographies of scientists.
The Leon Levy Center for Biography has been awarded a three-year grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund a $72,000 annual fellowship dedicated to biographies of scientists.
Leon Levy Center Executive Director Kai Bird has published a new review of Greg Miller's new book, "The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy", in The Washington Post. The book provides "A comprehensive account of Russia’s scheming in the 2016 election". Read the review
On September 25, 2018, Leon Levy Center director Kai Bird joined Governor Jerry Brown and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawell at The Graduate Center for a discussion of Pawell's recent book "The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation." The event was covered in the New York Times. Read [...]
Executive Director Kai Bird will moderate a panel entitled "Spies & Biography" at the National Book Fair, which will be held in Washington, DC on Sept. 1. The panel is composed of eminent writers David Ignatius, Adam Sisman and Joseph Kanon. Kai Bird [...]
Esther Allen, Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Baruch College, CUNY, and Leon Levy Fellow in 2014 - 2015, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in translation. Allen is co-editor of In Translation: Translators on their Work and What It Means, and she has translated works by Javier Marías, José Manuel Prieto, and many others. As a [...]
Kai Bird, the Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, announced today the award of four resident fellowships at the Graduate Center. Each fellow receives a $72,000 grant, writing space and full access to research facilities. These fellowships are generously funded by the Leon Levy Foundation. The four Leon Levy Biography fellows for [...]