American Prometheus #1 on NY Times Bestseller List

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Written By Thad Ziolkowski
The cover of the book American Prometheus

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 and he has published a number of articles related to the film and book, most notably in the New Yorker and the New York Times.

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