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Robert Caro

Born
Oct 30, 1935 · Age 91
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Male
Movie credits
2
TV credits
6
Also known as (2)
  • Robert Allan Caro
  • Robert A. Caro

Biography

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 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…