Sloan Foundation Funds Science Biography
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 Sloan Foundation Funds Science Biography Fellowship
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.
Kai Bird Reviews “The Apprentice” by Greg Miller
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
Jerry Brown and Miriam Pawel Event in the New York Times
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 [...]
The Leon Levy Center at the National Book Fair, Sept 1
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, ’14 – ’15 Fellow, Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
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 [...]
Announcing the 2018-2019 Leon Levy Biography Fellows
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 [...]
Kai Bird Reviews New Biography by Jennet Conant
Kai Bird, Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, reviews Man of the Hour by Jennet Conant for the New York Times. An Acclaimed Biographer Takes on her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant. Biography is a notoriously arduous affair. Typically, the biographer spends years in the archives, sifting through documents, folder by [...]
The Graduate Center, CUNY’s Leon Levy Center For Biography Announces Its 2017–2018 Fellowship Winners
The GC’s Leon Levy Center for Biography announced the recipients of four resident fellowships, supported by the Leon Levy Foundation, for the upcoming academic year. Each recipient of the prestigious award receives a $65,000 grant, writing space, and full access to research facilities. Fellows also participate in monthly seminars and the center’s public events, including its [...]
3 Questions: Kai Bird on “Israel & Palestine”
Earlier this month, the GC’s Leon Levy Center for Biography hosted “Israel and Palestine Through the Lens of Biography & Memoir,” featuring Dan Ephron, the author of Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, and Sari Nusseibeh, the philosopher, former PLO representative in Jerusalem, and author of the memoir Once Upon a Country: [...]