For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, twice won the National Book Award (the second for Lifetime Achievement), three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and 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.” In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal. In 2019, he published a memoir, Working. Caro graduated from Princeton, was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and worked for six years as an investigative reporter for Newsday. He lives with his wife, the historian and writer Ina Caro, in New York City, where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
