Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, best known for his biographies of political figures. His most recent book, “The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames,” a biography of a CIA officer, was a New York Times bestseller. He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for History in London. He has written about the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the CIA. He has received fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson, Alicia Patterson Journalism and Guggenheim foundations. In 2017 he was appointed executive director and distinguished lecturer of CUNY Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography. He is an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians.