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Robert A. Caro has been described as `the greatest political biographer of our times¿ ( _Sunday Times_ ) and `the most revered historian of his generation¿ ( _New York Times_ ). His first book, _The Power Broker_ , __ published in 1974, was described in 2015 as `one of the greatest non-fiction works ever written¿ ( _Sunday Times_ ) and his ongoing multi-volume work _The Years of Lyndon Johnson_ has been described as `the greatest biography of our erä ( _The Times_ ). With these books he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Award and three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also been awarded virtually every other major literary honour, including the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. Born in 1935, he graduated from Princeton University, later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and was an investigative reporter for _Newsday_ for six years. He lives with his wife, the writer Ina Caro, in New York City, where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of _The Years of Lyndon Johnson_.