Kai Bird

Kai Bird is an American journalist and biographer, born in 1951, who writes about political figures. The son of a US Foreign Service officer, he grew up in Jerusalem, Beirut, Dhahran, Cairo and Bombay, finished school in South India, and later studied at Carleton College and at Northwestern. His best-known book is American Prometheus, about J. Robert Oppenheimer; others include The Good Spy, The Outlier and American Scoundrel. He is a contributing editor of The Nation.