Robert Caro

Robert Caro
Robert Caro di Texas Book Festival 2012.
Lahir	Robert Allan Caro 30 Oktober 1935 New York City, A.S.
Pendidikan	Horace Mann School
Almamater	Universitas Princeton (B.A.)
Pekerjaan	Penulis biografi
Karya terkenal	The Power Broker The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Suami/istri	Ina Sloshberg ​ (m. 1957)​
Anak	1
Karier menulis
Genre	Non-fiksi
Penghargaan (2022) Bodley Medal (en) (2009) National Humanities Medal (en) (2003) Carl Sandburg Literary Award (en) (2003) Pulitzer Prize for Biography (en) (2002) National Book Award (en) (1975) Francis Parkman Prize (en) (1975) Pulitzer Prize for Biography (en)
Catatan

Robert Allan Caro (lahir 30 Oktober 1935) adalah wartawan dan penulis Amerika Serikat yang dikenal sebagai penulis biografi dua tokoh politik Amerika Serikat, Robert Moses dan Lyndon B. Johnson.

Setelah beberapa tahun bekerja sebagai wartawan, Caro menulis The Power Broker (1974), biografi tentang penata kota New York, Robert Moses. Modern Library memasukkan buku ini dalam daftar seratus buku nonfiksi terbaik abad ke-20. Ia kemudian menulis empat dari lima volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), biografi tentang mantan presiden AS.

Atas karya biografinya, ia dianugerahi dua Pulitzer Prize for Biography, dua National Book Award (termasuk satu penghargaan Lifetime Achievement), Francis Parkman Prize (dari Society of American Historians untuk buku yang "mencerminkan bersatunya seorang sejarawan dan seorang seniman"), tiga National Book Critics Circle Award, H.L. Mencken Award, Carr P. Collins Award dari Texas Institute of Letters, D.B. Hardeman Prize, dan Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Pada tahun 2010, Presiden Barack Obama menganugerahkan National Humanities Medal kepada Caro.

Karena tulisan Caro didasari oleh penelitian dan perincian yang mendalam, sejumlah kritikus kadang memakai istilah "Caro-esque" untuk menyebut penulis lain yang juga melakukan penelitian mendalam.

Karya pilihan

Buku

• Caro, Robert (1974). The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-48076-3. OCLC 834874. 
• Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. 1982. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394499735). xxiii + 882 p. + 48 p. of plates: illus.
• Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent. 1990. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394528352). xxxiv + 506 pp.
• Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. 2002. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 0-394-52836-0). xxiv + 1167 pp.
• Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power. 2012. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 978-0-679-40507-8). 752 pp.
• Zinsser, William Knowlton (ed.), Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography. 2016. Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-48617-3
• Caro, Robert A., Working. April, 2019. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York. (ISBN 9780525656357). 240 pp.

Bacaan lanjutan

• Santel, Interviewed by James (2016). "Robert Caro, The Art of Biography No. 5". Paris Review (dalam bahasa Inggris). Spring 2016 (216). ISSN 0031-2037. 

Pranala luar

• Situs web resmi
• Kemunculan di C-SPAN
  • Booknotes interview with Caro on Means of Ascent, April 29, 1990
  • In Depth interview with Caro, April 7, 2002
  • C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro about the writing of his fourth volume, January 4, 2009
  • Part one of C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro about the finished book, The Passage of Power, May 6, 2012
  • Part two of C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro about The Passage of Power, May 20, 2012
• Caro, Robert A., The City Shaper Article on Robert Moses and the writing of The Power Broker, The New Yorker, January 5, 1998.
• Lebow, David, Caro's Lives: Comparative Biography as Political Theory, The Review of Politics 77 (2015), 99–127
• Robert Caro discusses a volume of his biography of President Johnson, LOC.gov video.
• Darman, Jonathan, "The Marathon Man", Newsweek, Feb 16, 2009.
• Robert Caro: Understanding Power, a documentary on Caro's life.
• Rattiner, Dan, "The Biographer's Biographer," Diarsipkan 2019-10-25 di Wayback Machine. a profile of Caro and his career, December 6, 2011, Construction Magazine.
• Caro appears as an on camera expert in New York: A Documentary Film (1999) directed by Ric Burns for PBS.
• 2012 radio interview (47 minutes) at The Bat Segundo Show
• Jones, Chris, "The Big Book", profile in Esquire, May 2012.
• Robbins, Christopher (February 17, 2016). "Robert Caro Wonders What New York Is Going To Become". The Gothamist. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal January 4, 2017. Diakses tanggal February 18, 2016.