Author

Books by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Kai Bird is an American historian and journalist who has written extensively on American foreign policy and political history, including books on McGeorge Bundy and Jimmy Carter. Martin J. Sherwin (1937–2021) was a historian of nuclear weapons and an emeritus professor at George Mason University. The two began collaborating on the Oppenheimer biography in the 1980s and spent twenty-five years on the research and writing. American Prometheus won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 2006 and was the basis for Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer, which won seven Academy Awards.