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Kai Bird was born on 2 September, 1951 in Eugene, Oregon, U.S., is an American author and columnist. Discover Kai Bird's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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Biographer, columnist |
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72 years old |
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Virgo |
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2 September 1951 |
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2 September |
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Eugene, Oregon, U.S. |
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United States
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He is a member of famous author with the age 72 years old group.
Kai Bird Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Kai Bird's Wife?
His wife is Susan Goldmark
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Susan Goldmark |
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Kai Bird Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Kai Bird worth at the age of 72 years old? Kai Bird’s income source is mostly from being a successful author. He is from United States. We have estimated Kai Bird's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Kai Bird (born September 2, 1951) is an American author and columnist, best known for his works on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, United States-Middle East political relations, and his biographies of political figures.
He won a Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Bird was born in 1951 in Eugene, Oregon.
His father was a U.S. Foreign Service officer, and Bird spent his childhood in Jerusalem, Beirut, Dhahran, Cairo, and Mumbai.
His father named him after Kai-Yu Hsu, a refugee from Communist China he met at the University of Oregon.
Bird finished high school in 1969 at Kodaikanal International School in Tamil Nadu, South India.
He received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1973 and an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University in 1975.
Bird now lives in New York City with his wife, Susan Goldmark, a retired country director of the World Bank.
Bird is a recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (1973), an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship (1981), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984), and a John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Grant for Research and Writing (1993–95).
Bird was an associate editor of The Nation magazine from 1978 to 1982 and then a columnist for the magazine.
Ames perished in the April 18, 1983, truck bombing of the American embassy in Beirut.
In 2021, he published a biography of Jimmy Carter entitled The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.
Bird's biographical works include The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms (Touchstone, 1998); The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment (Random House, 1992); and Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (1998), which he co-edited with Lawrence Lifschultz.
In 2001-2002 he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
He and Sherwin also won the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for their biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Bird and co-author Martin J. Sherwin won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf, 2005).
In 2008, they also won the Duff Cooper Prize.
In April 2010 his book Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956–1978 was released by Scribner.
It is a meld of memoir and history, fusing his early life in the Arab world with an account of the American experience in the Middle East.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in the "Autobiography" category.
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames (Crown, 2014) is a biography of CIA officer Robert Ames, whose career focus was the Middle East.
According to the book, Ames played a key role in starting the peace process that led to the Oslo accords between Israel and the PLO.
In September 2016, he was the featured speaker at Carleton College's opening convocation in Northfield, Minnesota.
In January 2017, Bird was appointed Executive Director and Distinguished Lecturer at CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City.
After graduating from Carleton, Bird received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which enables students to do a year of independent study outside the United States.
He used the fellowship to do a photojournalism project in Yemen.
Two years later, his wife Goldmark was also awarded a Watson Fellowship, and the two of them spent 15 months as freelance journalists traveling through Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
"We filed weekly stories with papers like the Christian Science Monitor and Hong Kong's Far Eastern Economic Review," Bird says.
"We hardly made any money, but we enjoyed what we were doing."