 In February, 2008, Milford was named the executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, CUNY.Milford lives in New York.Milford has been an Annenberg Fellow at Brown University in 1995; a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow in 1995; a Fulbright scholar in Turkey in 1996 and 1999; a Guggenheim Fellow in 1978; a Literary Lion at the New York Public Library in 1984.