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.

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 second Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow for a biography on a figure from science. Mr. Bird, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, is presently finishing his own project, a biography of President Jimmy Carter. The Leon Levy Center for Biography is hosted by the Graduate Center at the City University of New York—and generously funded by the Leon Levy Foundation. Each resident fellow receives a $72,000 grant, research assistance, writing space and full access to research facilities.