Five New Biography Fellows for 2026 – 2027

Kai Bird, the Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, announced today the award of five resident fellowships at the Graduate Center, including a Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow for a biography on a figure from science. Mr. Bird, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, is the author most recently of American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, forthcoming in September. Oppenheimer, the global blockbuster motion picture inspired by his biography of Robert Oppenheimer, American Prometheus, won seven Academy Awards, including the Best Picture. 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, a private office and full access to research facilities.