Six New Biography Fellows for 2025 – 2026
Kai Bird, the Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, announced today the award of six resident fellowships at the Graduate Center, including the seventh Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow for a biography on a figure from science, and a Dissertation Fellow. Each resident fellow receives a $72,000 grant, research assistance, writing space and full access to research facilities.
Five New 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.Each resident fellow receives a $72,000 grant, research assistance, writing space and full access to research facilities.
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.