About Author

Fellowships:

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2001-2002)

Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Fellowship (November-December 1997)

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for writing (1992-93)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1984)

Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship (1983-84)

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (1973-74)

Kai Bird is represented by the Ross-Yoon Literary Agency in Washington DC and also by the BrightSight Group,  a speakers bureau in Princeton. He is a Contributing Editor of The Nation magazine.