Robert Caro has won the 2011 BIO Award, given each year by members of Biographers International Organization (BIO) to a colleague who has made "a major contribution to the advancement of the art and craft of real life depiction."
Best
known for his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, and
winner of the National Book Award and other book honors, Caro will
receive the honor during the 2011 Compleat Biographer Conference on May
21 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., where he will deliver
the keynote address.
"Robert Caro exemplifies the relentless
drive for truth," BIO president Nigel Hamilton said. "He has dedicated
his life as a biographer not only to understand his subject in all his
personal complexity, but within the subject's background and
professional setting over time. We owe him a debt that can never be
repaid; in an age of sound bites and Twitter, Caro has become the Moses
of serious life writing."