The Leon Levy Foundation has donated $10 million to the CUNY Graduate Center to endow the Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography, the premiere institute for biography in the U.S. This donation is the second largest in the Graduate Center’s history and brings the Leon Levy Foundation’s total giving to the school to $22.8 million. In addition, the Foundation will match up to $5 million in new gifts to the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
Established with a generous gift from the Leon Levy Foundation in 2007, the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center supports working biographers through its prestigious fellowship program and cultivates important discussions about the art and craft of biography through lectures and events with esteemed biographers. It also supports the Graduate Center’s Biography and Memoir master’s program.
