Robert A. Caro

Birth Name:

Robert Allan Caro

Birth Place:

New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Actor

Awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2010
Accolades for his writing includes multiple Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Critics Circle Awards
Recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 1983
Once served as a Carnegie Fellow at Columbia and later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard
Majored in English at Princeton, where he served as the editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian
Quote: "I try to make clear through my writing something which I believe: biography, or history in general, can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that that term․"
Quote: "I trained myself to be organized․ If you're fumbling around trying to remember what notebook has what quote, you can't be in the room with the people you're writing about․"
Began his career for small Northeastern dailies before writing non-fiction
After gaining critical success from The Power Broker, he would begin working on his first biography of Lyndon B․ Johnson
Began working on his first biographical novel, The Power Broker, in the late '60, but would not complete it until 1974 after more than a decade completing extensive research
While in high school, he translated his school's newspaper into Russian and mailed 10,000 copies to Russian school children
His wife Ina served as his personal research assistant on all of his books and even took a new job in order to help pay for the completion of The Power Broker

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