Robert Caro Wiki
Robert Caro is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of prominent United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1974, he wrote The Power Broker a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
He has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards, the Francis Parkman Prize, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D.B. Hardeman Prize, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded by President Barack Obama the National Humanities Medal in 2010.
Robert Caro Age
He was born Robert Allan Caro on October 30, 1935, in New York City, U.S.
Robert Caro Wife
He married Ina Sloshberg Caro in 1957.
Robert Caro Occupation
He is a renowned Biographer.
Robert Caro Life and Career
He was born to Celia and Benjamin Caro in Warsaw, Poland, and raised up on Central Park West at 94th street. He attended Horace Mann School, an exclusive private school in the Riverdale section of The Bronx.
As a student at Horace Mann School, he translated an edition of his school newspaper into Russian and mailed 10,000 copies to students in the USSR. Graduated in 1953, he went on to Princeton University, where he majored in English. He became managing editor of The Daily Princetonian.
His writing both in class and out had been long since his years at Horace Mann. In the school’s humor magazine he wrote a short story for The Princeton Tiger, that took almost an entire issue. He began his career as a reporter with the New Brunswick Daily Home News in New Jersey. He also worked for the Middlesex County Democratic Party as a publicist.
He briefly enrolled in English doctoral program at Rutgers University where he was an assistant teacher. He later went on to six years as an investigative reporter with the Long Island newspaper Newsday. At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he gave a speech to introduce Senator Ted Kennedy.
Robert Caro New Book
He has and published a new book called Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing which was released on 04/09/2019. In this superb collection of original and previously published pieces, Pulitzer winner he offers a glimpse into the process behind his epic biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson.
Writing with his customary humor, grace, and vigor, he wryly acknowledges the question of “Why does it take so long” to produce each book and provides both the short answer—intensive research—and a longer, illuminating explication of just what that entails.