Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-win­ning his­to­ri­an who has pub­lished biogra­phies of John J. McCloy, McGe­orge Bundy, J. Robert Oppen­heimer, Robert Ames‚ and now The Out­lier: The Unfin­ished Pres­i­den­cy of Jim­my Carter. He has also authored a mem­oir about his child­hood in the Mid­dle East. He is the Direc­tor of the Leon Levy Cen­ter for Biog­ra­phy at the Grad­u­ate Cen­ter of the City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York.