| Kai Bird Born: 1951
Birthplace: Eugene, OR
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: American Prometheus Wife: (one son)
High School: Kodaikanal School, Tamil Nadu, India
University: BA, Carleton College (1973)
University: MS Journalism, Northwestern University (1975)
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2006 with Martin J. Sherwin, for American Prometheus
The Nation Associate Editor (1978-82)
Nader 2000
Obama for America
Organization of American Historians
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow (2001-02)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1982
MacArthur Fellowship 1993-95
Author of books:
The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment (1992, biography)
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms (2000, biography)
Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (1998, ed. with Lawrence Lifschultz)
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005, biography)
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