@biographyctr

Hub for writers, scholars & lovers of biography. Host of public talks. Seeker of excellence & innovation in biography.

 New York, NY
llcb.ws.gc.cuny.edu/
Joined October 2011
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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY25 Oct 2024
Tues, 10/29, 6:30p ET - presenting "John Lewis: A Life - David Greenberg in Conversation with Rachel L. Swarns" - reserve to join us in NYC or online: gc.cuny.edu/events/john-lewi… @republicofspin @simonschuster
Book cover of JOHN LEWIS: A Life, with headshots of David Greenberg & Rachel Swarns

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY12 Apr 2024
Congratulations to the five Leon Levy Biography fellows for 2024-2025: Stephen Phillips, Nicholas Kulish (@nkulish), @emilyebernard, @mikerezendes, and Nicholas Dawidoff gc.cuny.edu/news/leon-levy-c… @biographyctr @Kaibird123
Leon Levy Center for Biography fellows 2024-2025 (clockwise from top left): Stephen Phillips, Nicholas Kulish, Emily Bernard, Mike Rezendes, and Nicholas Dawidoff

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Lance Richardson@lancerichardson28 Mar 2024
“The silence was mounting, like a bill that would have to be paid.” Astoundingly good prose (duh: Salter), but reads more like a film treatment than a fleshed-out novel — unsurprising, given that it apparently started life as a script for Robert Redford, who rejected it.
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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY11 Mar 2024
Congratulations to Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Cillian Murphy, and Robert Downey Jr. for their Academy Award sweep for Oppenheimer, based on Kai Bird’s (@Kaibird123) biography “American Prometheus”! gc.cuny.edu/news/christopher… @biographyctr @biographymemoir
(L-R) Christopher Nolan, the cover of "American Prometheus," and Kai Bird

ALT (L-R) Christopher Nolan, the cover of "American Prometheus," and Kai Bird

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY7 Mar 2024
Wed, 3/13, 6:30p! @WilliamHermes discusses his definitive bio "Lou Reed: The King of New York" with @amandapetrusich of @NewYorker - reserve to join in person or online: gc.cuny.edu/events/lou-reed-… Take a walk on the wild side!
Cover of Lou Reed: The King of New York, with headshots of Will Hermes & Amanda Petrusich

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY24 Nov 2023
#BlackFriday's best finds aren't just gadgets; they're gateways to new worlds. Explore these books by @gc_cuny scholars. There's a page-turner for every reader gc.cuny.edu/news/beautifully… @BrankoMilan @Kaibird123 @soulistaphd @cowbirdlab @AJRavenelleNYC @DrSuzBizChem @ProfMChin
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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY13 Oct 2023
ICYMI, catch up on the discussion with "Oppenheimer" filmmakers Christopher Nolan & Emma Thomas about turning @Kaibird123’s biography into a blockbuster gc.cuny.edu/news/standing-sh… @biographyctr
Kai Bird, Emma Thomas, and Christopher Nolan at the CUNY Graduate Center October 12, 2023 (Photo credit: Paula Vlodkowsky)

ALT Kai Bird, Emma Thomas, and Christopher Nolan at the CUNY Graduate Center October 12, 2023 (Photo credit: Paula Vlodkowsky)

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY26 Jul 2023
Kai Bird (@Kaibird123), director of the Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography, co-wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography on which #Oppenheimer is based. He discusses what Oppenheimer's story means for this political moment ow.ly/lj9V50Pl0WQ @biographyctr
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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY25 Apr 2023
ICYMI, watch our recent @biographyctr discussion - acclaimed biographer @anniecohensolal discusses her new book, #Picasso the Foreigner, with Blair Asbury Brooks, @GCArtHistory - video now available: youtu.be/ixDv0magutA @fsgbooks
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Bill Goldstein@BGoldsteinBooks20 Apr 2023
Thanks @biographyctr for your support & confidence & for including me among the #biography fellows. I’m looking forward to being back @GC_CUNY. I wrote my dissertation on Milton there & now I’ll write about Larry Kramer. Paradise Regained! @GMHC #larrykramer #AIDS #LGBTQ @actupny
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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY22 Mar 2023
Next Wed, 3/29 at 6:30p! Acclaimed biographer @anniecohensolal discusses her new book, Picasso the Foreigner, with Blair Asbury Brooks, @GCArtHistory - reserve now to join in person or online: gc.cuny.edu/events/picasso-f…
Headshots of Blair Asbury Brooks & Annie Cohen-Solal, with book cover of Picasso the Foreigner

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY19 Dec 2022
Thank you to @dtmax and @adamgopnik for a great event last week! The @NewYorker writers discussed Max's new book, "Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim," in our @biographyctr series - intro by @Kaibird123. Video coming soon! (Photos: Paula Vlodkowsky)
Adam Gopnik and D. T. Max onstage at the CUNY Graduate Center

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Closeup of D. T. Max speaking about his book Finale

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Kai Bird at the podium, introducing our guests

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A table with copies of the book Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center Presents@GCPresents13 Dec 2022
Tonight at 6:30p! @dtmax discusses his new book "Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim" with fellow @NewYorker writer @adamgopnik - reserve to join in person or online: gc.cuny.edu/events/finale-la… #Broadway #theater
Headshots of D. T. Max and Adam Gopnik with the book cover of Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim

ALT Headshots of D. T. Max and Adam Gopnik with the book cover of Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY8 Dec 2022
Tues, 12/13 @ 6:30p - @dtmax discusses his new book "Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim" with fellow @NewYorker writer @adamgopnik - reserve to join in person or online: gc.cuny.edu/events/finale-la…
Headshots of D. T. Max and Adam Gopnik with the book cover of "Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim"

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY22 Nov 2022
Coming 11/29 at 6:30p! @NewYorker dance critic Jennifer Homans discusses Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century, her "sensitive, stately and often thrilling new biography" - @nytimesbooks, with @ptnewkirk. Reserve to join in person or via livestream: gc.cuny.edu/events/mr-b-geor…
Headshots of Jennifer Homans and Pamela Newkirk with book cover of Mr. B

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY15 Nov 2022
ICYMI, this wonderful conversation btw. Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall, about Jefferson's new memoir Constructing a Nervous System, is now up on YouTube - WATCH: youtu.be/xc3nKUV5Qfo @biographyctr @penguinrandom @HumanitiesGC
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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY27 Oct 2022
In case you missed it, the brilliant lecture by Gandhi biographer @Ram_Guha from 10/18 is now up on our YouTube channel - WATCH: youtu.be/DBgZAYZPqZg Presented w/@biographyctr, intro by @Kaibird123
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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY20 Oct 2022
Join us Wed, 10/26, 6:30p! Margo Jefferson speaks about the anticipated follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Negroland, with fellow memoirist Elizabeth Kendall - reserve (in-person & livestream): gc.cuny.edu/events/construct…
Authors Margo Jefferson and Elizabeth Kendal, with the cover of Jefferson's new book, Constructing a Nervous System

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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY12 Oct 2022
Join @biographyctr this Thurs, 10/13, 6:30p - David Maraniss on Jim Thorpe, in conversation with Dave Zirin - register for this in-person event: eventbrite.com/e/40965905024… @simonschuster
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Leon Levy Center for Biography retweeted
The Graduate Center@GC_CUNY7 Sep 2022
Join @biographyctr for its first fall event - Mark Rozzo on Dennis Hopper & Brooke Hayward - speaking w/Thad Ziolkowski - Tues, 9/13, 6:30 pm. Register for in-person: eventbrite.com/e/40882447400… Register for livestream: gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/… #FilmTwitter #BookTwitter
Headshots of Mark Rozzo & Thad Ziolkowski with book cover of Everybody Thought We Were Crazy

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