Robert Caro

Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author. He is known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Famous works
Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses. Iy was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.100 Best Nonfiction —Modern Library He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president.

Awards
He has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D.B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal.

Legacy
Caro's reputation for extreme research and detailed biographies, he is sometimes called by reviewers of other writers who are called "Caro-esque" for their own extensive research.

References

Other websites
 Official website


 In Depth interview with Caro, April 7, 2002
 C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro about the writing of his fourth volume, January 4, 2009
 Part one of C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro about the finished book, The Passage of Power, May 6, 2012
 Part two of C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro about The Passage of Power, May 20, 2012

Category:Pulitzer Prize winners
Category:1935 births
Category:Living people
Category:American political writers
Category:American political commentators
Category:Journalists from New York City
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Jewish American writers
Category:Princeton University alumni