The Leon Levy Center for Biography is pleased to inaugurate the David Levering Lewis Biography Fellowship on the African Diaspora 

The Lewis Fellowship is funded by a $1,000,000 gift from Professor Lewis, matched by another million from the Leon Levy Foundation.

Kai Bird, Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, has been selected by the Rockefeller Foundation as a Bellagio Center Resident in February 2026. This prestigious program has hosted thousands of artists, policymakers, scholars, authors, practitioners, and scientists from all over the world and across every discipline, including Maya Angelou, Dikgang Moseneke, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Robinson, and more. Bird will be working on his forthcoming biography of Roy Cohn, entitled, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump.