This journalist’s co-authored and Pulitzer Prize winning biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, served as the inspiration for the Oscar winning film, Oppenheimer. Bird has written several critically acclaimed biographies, including The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms; The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment; The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames; and The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. Bird currently serves as the Executive Director and Distinguished Lecturer at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City. Presently, he is working on a biography of lawyer Roy Cohn. Kai Bird was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member John “Jack” Farrell.