![]() ![]() Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ![]() Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D. ![]() Consequentially, he has been described as "the most influential biographer of the last century." įor 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. 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. ![]() Johnson.Īfter 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. 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. Robert Caro on the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Robert F. ![]()
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