KAI BIRD WINS BIO AWARD FROM THE BIOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION – Making the Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography “the most important institute for biography in America.”

March 27, 2024

March 2024 – Kai Bird, executive director of the Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography, won the 2024 BIO Award. The award, the highest honor from the Biographers International Organization, recognizes a distinguished colleague who has made significant contributions to the art and craft of biography.

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