Robert Caro | |
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.jpg) Caro in April 2019 | |
| Born | Robert Allan Caro October 30, 1935 New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Biographer |
| Notable work | The Power Broker The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
| Spouse |
Ina Sloshberg (m. 1957) |
| Children | 1 |
| Writing career | |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
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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.
Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses. It was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. 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.
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.
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.
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