Robert Caro's lifetime of writing

The biographer of Robert Moses is about to publish his fourth volume on Lyndon Johnson and he's running late, Chris Jones writes in an exquisitely detailed Esquire profile: "Caro knits together his fingers until he knows what his book is about. Once he is certain, he will write one or two paragraphs — he aims for one, but he usually writes two, a consistent Caro math — that capture his ambitions." Also, CJR's 2002 Caro profile revisited.

April 22, 2012

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