Caro, Robert Allen (1935– )

US historian. His works include The Power Broker, a biography of US urban planner Roger Moses and study of New York City, which won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and the multi-volume biography The Years of Lyndon Johnson, which includes The Path to Power (1982), Means of Ascent (1990), and Master of the Senate (2002), which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Caro received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1957 before working as an investigative reporter for six years at New York's Newsday. He was also a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 1966.