Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is a biographer most noted for his studies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working years as a reporter Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses. Then he began the biographical series of the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, known as The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002). For his biographies of Robert Moses ...
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Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is a biographer most noted for his studies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working years as a reporter Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses. Then he began the biographical series of the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, known as The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002). For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography -- 1975, 2003 -- he has twice won the National Book Critic Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year -- 1982, 1990 -- he was awarded a Gold Medal in Biography and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute -- 2003, 1986 -- he won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1975.
In October 2007, Robert Caro was named a "Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor" at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany but was unable to attend.
In 1953, Caro graduated from...
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