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Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), 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 since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president. Caro has been described as "the most influential biographer of the last century".For his biographies, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that "best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist"), three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Mencken Award for Best Book, 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.
Due to Caro's reputation for exhaustive research and detail, he is sometimes invoked by reviewers of other writers who are called "Caro-esque" for their own extensive research.
Filmography
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Movies 4
self 3
TV Shows 2
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (2022)
New York: The City of Tomorrow (2001)
New York: Cosmopolis (1919–1931) (1999)
New York: Sunshine and Shadow (1865–1898) (1999)
New York: A Documentary Film (1999)
The Simpsons (1989)
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GenderMale
Birthday1935-10-30 (88 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesUpper West Side, United States of America
AwardsCarl Sandburg Literary Award, National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
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