“Silence is the weapon,” writes Robert A. Caro in his 2019 book, “Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing.” “Silence and the people’s need to fill it.” Caro is writing about an interviewing trick ...

Robert A. Caro is the author of "The Power Broker," "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," and now, "Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing." Penguin Random House The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ...

In this superb collection of original and previously published pieces, Pulitzer winner Caro (The Passage of Power) offers a glimpse into the process behind his epic biographies of Robert Moses and ...

WORKING: Researching, Interviewing, Writing. By Robert A. Caro. Knopf. 207 pages. $25. About 30 years ago, before writing the biography of a powerful Washington lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, I ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Long haul: Robert Caro, 83, wrote his first biographical work — ...

The summer of 2013, I found myself on the phone with Stephen King, listening as he described how he wrote the opening sentence of It: “That’s one that I worked over and over and over.” As I listened, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Harold Evans WORKING Researching, Interviewing, Writing By Robert A. Caro “Working” is a squib ...