Robert Caro’s (prehistoric) writing process

The Times has a great profile of historian Robert Caro. Caro’s writing process is amazing. He writes 4–5 drafts by hand before moving to a typewriter. Then he transcribes the typewritten pages into a word processing program. Caro has spent the last 36 years writing a biography of Lyndon Johnson.

Robert Caro’s Painstaking Process | NYTimes.com

 

April 17, 2012