An Evening with Robert Caro, 6 p.m., Tuesday May 13, 2003, LBJ Auditorium
Robert Caro, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has dedicated the past two decades of his life to a multi-volume biography The Years of Lyndon Johnson, will present the May "Evening With…" lecture.
Caro was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the third volume of the series, Master of the Senate.
Caro, a graduate of Princeton University, was for six years an award-winning investigative reporter for Newsday, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
His first work, The Power Broker, won both the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians for the book that "exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist." It was chosen as one of the hundred best nonfiction books of the twentieth century. To research The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Caro and his wife, Ina, moved from his native New York City to the Texas Hill Country and then to Washington, D.C., to live in the locales where Johnson grew up and where he conducted his political career. He has spent years examining documents at the LBJ Library and interviewing men and women connected with President Johnson's life. The first volume of the Johnson work, The Path to Power, won the National Book Critics Circle Award as the best nonfiction work of 1982. The second volume, Means of Ascent, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1990. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Master of the Senate also won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mr. Caro will sign hardcover editions of Master of the Senate from 5:30 to 5:45 p.m. A reception will follow Mr. Caro's address in the Library and Museum's Great Hall.