Robert A. Caro Quote
But then one evening in November, 1939, the Smiths were returning from Johnson City, where they had been attending a declamation contest, and as they neared their farmhouse, something was different. Oh my God, her mother said. The house is on fire! But as they got closer, they saw the light wasn’t fire. No, Mama, Evelyn said. The lights are on. They were on all over the Hill Country. And all over the Hill Country, Stella Gliddon says, people began to name their kids for Lyndon Johnson.
Robert A. Caro
But then one evening in November, 1939, the Smiths were returning from Johnson City, where they had been attending a declamation contest, and as they neared their farmhouse, something was different. Oh my God, her mother said. The house is on fire! But as they got closer, they saw the light wasn’t fire. No, Mama, Evelyn said. The lights are on. They were on all over the Hill Country. And all over the Hill Country, Stella Gliddon says, people began to name their kids for Lyndon Johnson.
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About Robert A. Caro
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 most influential biographer of the last century".
For his biographies, Caro has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Mencken Award for Best Book, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D. B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal.
Due to Caro's reputation for exhaustive research and detail, he is sometimes invoked by reviewers of other writers who are called "Caro-esque" for their own extensive research.