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.

Robert Caro
Caro in April 2019
Born	Robert Allan Caro (1935-10-30) October 30, 1935 (age 89) New York City, New York, U.S.
Education	Princeton University A.B., 1957 Rutgers University Graduate work in English, late 1950s[1] Harvard University Nieman Fellow, 1965-1966[2] Columbia University Carnegie Fellow in Journalism, 1967-1968[3]
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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Famous works

Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses.^[5] Iy was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.^[6] 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,^[7] he is sometimes called by reviewers of other writers who are called "Caro-esque" for their own extensive research.^[8][9]