Kai Bird

Kai Bird

Kai Bird is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy, of McGeorge and William Bundy, Robert Ames, and President Jimmy Carter. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin), which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer. His work has been honored with the BIO Award for his significant contributions to the art and craft of biography. He has also written about the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He lives in New York City and Washington, D.C., with…

Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Adapted by Eric S. Singer
The Outlier

The Outlier

Kai Bird
The Good Spy

The Good Spy

Kai Bird
American Prometheus

American Prometheus

Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin