The family of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin establishes a fellowship for nuclear age biography at the Leon Levy Center for Biography

In an extraordinary feat, all five Leon Levy Center for Biography fellows from a single year have brought their biographies to fruition — and many to great acclaim — with the last set for release next spring.

Former Fellow Cynthia Carr Wins 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography

Former Fellow Francesca Wade’s upcoming biography ‘Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife’ gets a lauded review in the New Yorker.

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 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.

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.

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.

On April 22, 2019, Executive Director Kai Bird announced the award of five resident fellowships, including the first Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow for a biography on a figure from science for 2019-2020. Each resident fellow receives a $72,000 grant, research assistance, writing space and full access to research facilities.