Robert Caro - Awards

Awards

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 Critics Circle Award for the Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Art and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize.

In October 2007, Caro was named a "Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor" at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany but then was unable to attend.

In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. Delivering remarks at the end of the ceremony, the President said, "I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker back when I was 22 years old and just being mesmerized, and I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics." In 2011, Robert Caro was the recipient of the 2011 BIO Award given each year by members of Biographers International "to a colleague who had made a major contribution in the advancement of the art and craft of real life depiction."

• 1964 — The Society of Silurians Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Public Service History for a series entitled “Misery Acres”, exposing fraudulent real estate sales by mail
• 1964 — The Deadline Club for outstanding newspaper reporting
• 1965 — The Deadline Club for outstanding newspaper reporting
• 1965-1966 — Nieman W. Lucius Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University Nieman Foundation
• 1975 — Washington Monthly American Political Book Award (The Power Broker)
• 1975 — 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” (The Power Broker)
• 1975 — The Pulitzer Prize for Biography (The Power Broker)
• 1975 — AIA Special Citation
• 1982 — The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (The Path to Power)
• 1983 — The Blue Pencil Award from the Columbia Daily Spectator
• 1983 — American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
• 1983 — The Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters (The Path to Power)
• 1983 — The Mencken Award for the best book of 1982 (The Path to Power)
• 1986 — The Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Art and Letters
• 1991 — Washington Monthly American Political Book Award (Means of Ascent)
• 1990 — The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (Means of Ascent)
• 2002 — The Power Broker was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth century.
• 2002 — The National Book Award (Master of the Senate)
• 2003 — The Los Angeles Times Book Award in Non-Fiction (Master of the Senate)
• 2003 — The Carl Sandberg Award in Literature (Master of the Senate)
• 2003 — The John Steinbeck Award in literature (Master of the Senate)
• 2003 — The Pulitzer Prize for Biography (Master of the Senate)
• 2010 — Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame
• 2010 — The National Humanities Medal
• 2012 — National Book Award (Nonfiction), finalist, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson