--- title: Kai Bird | TIME description: Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of J. Robert Oppenheimer. His 2010 memoir, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, has just been re-issued by Scribner. canonical: https://time.com/author/kai-bird/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/kai-bird/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kai Bird ## Kai Bird Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of J. Robert Oppenheimer. His 2010 memoir, [_Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis_](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crossing-Mandelbaum-Gate/Kai-Bird/9781416544418), has just been re-issued by Scribner. ## Kai Bird *  Apr 11, 2024 ### [A Million Dollar Middle East Peace Plan](https://time.com/6965909/middle-east-peace-plan/) The Israel-Gaza conflict is so dangerous that the time has come for the international community to i... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kai-bird/","name":"Kai Bird"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kai-bird/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kai-bird/"},"name":"Kai Bird","jobTitle":null,"description":"Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of J. Robert Oppenheimer. His 2010 memoir, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, has just been re-issued by Scribner.","url":"https://time.com/author/kai-bird/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```