Ina Caro

Caro was born Ina Joan Sloshberg.{{cite news |last1=Weeks |first1=Linton |title=Power Biographer |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/04/25/power-biographer/366665ae-29be-405c-a458-eba7c6ff1878/ |access-date=July 2, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 25, 2002}} She married Robert Caro in 1957, while she was a student at Connecticut College. She graduated from the Columbia University School of General Studies in 1962.{{Cite web|title=Book Review: "Working"|url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/book-review-working|website=Columbia Magazine}}

While she and her husband worked on The Power Broker (1974), she worked as a substitute teacher and she sold their house so there would be enough money to support them while the book was being completed.{{cite news |last1=Cooke |first1=Rachel |title=Robert Caro: 'The more facts you collect, the closer you come to the truth' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/21/robert-caro-interview-working-lbj-more-facts-you-collect-closer-to-the-truth |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=April 21, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/06/24/robert-caro-working|title=Biographer Robert Caro Says To Understand Political Power, Listen To The People It Impacts|website=www.wbur.org|date=June 24, 2020 }} They moved to the Bronx and she continued to support his research for his books,{{cite news |last1=Porch |first1=Scott |title='The Power Broker' Turns 40: How Robert Caro Wrote a Masterpiece |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-power-broker-turns-40-how-robert-caro-wrote-a-masterpiece |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=The Daily Beast |date=July 12, 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Zax |first1=Talya |title=How Robert Caro Gets It Done |url=https://forward.com/culture/422648/robert-caro-working-lbj-robert-moses-inequality-jackie-robinson/ |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=The Forward |date=April 16, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Loosley |first1=Stephen |title=The story behind Robert Caro's epic biography of LBJ |url=https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/the-story-behind-robert-caro-s-epic-biography-of-lbj-20190917-p52s3e |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=Financial Review |date=September 18, 2019}} serving as his sole research assistant.{{cite news|last1=Prial|first1=Frank J.|date=September 17, 2002|title=One to Go On Johnson But No Rush|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/books/one-to-go-on-johnson-but-no-rush.html|access-date=July 3, 2021}}{{cite news|date=April 29, 2012|title=Johnson biographer Caro says political genius is his subject|work=Today|agency=Reuters|url=https://www.today.com/news/johnson-biographer-caro-says-political-genius-his-subject-wbna47226736|access-date=July 3, 2021}} In the late 1970s, they moved to Texas for three years to research President Johnson for The Years of Lyndon Johnson.{{cite news |last1=Sherman |first1=Scott |title=Caro's Way |url=https://archives.cjr.org/fiftieth_anniversary/caros_way.php |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=Columbia Journalism Review |date=May 2002}}

She is the author of The Road from the Past: Traveling Through History in France, a personal driving-tour history of France first published in 1994.{{cite news |last1=Knorr |first1=Katherine |title=The Road From The Past |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/07/style/IHT-the-road-from-the-past.html |access-date=July 2, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=December 7, 1994}}{{cite news |title=The Road from the Past: Traveling Through History in France |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780156003636 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=April 22, 1996}} In 2011, she released the sequel Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train,{{cite news |title=PARIS TO THE PAST |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ina-caro/paris-past/ |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=March 2, 2011}} which also combines history and travel writing, covering 700 years of French history charted through the author's train journeys.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/paris-past-traveling-through-french-history-train|title=a book review by Cynthia D. Bertelsen: Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train|website=www.nyjournalofbooks.com}}

Katherine Knorr of the International Herald Tribune describes The Road From the Past as a "charming book" that "takes the reader time-traveling," and writes, "She begins in the ruins at Orange and Nîmes, and then ushers us through blood and fire, religious wars, feudal rivalries and monarchical madness, into the light of the Renaissance, up to Louis XIV's punishment of his superintendent of finance, Nicolas Fouquet, for the in-the- king's-face magnificence of Vaux-le-Vicomte. And thus we visit Provence, the Languedoc, the Dordogne, the Loire Valley and the Ile-de-France." Publishers Weekly writes, "Her delightful blend of travel, history and pithy observations on French culture unfolds chronologically with historic tales of love, murder, political intrigue, treachery and selflessness."{{cite news |title=The Road from the Past |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780385266727 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=August 1, 1994}} Kirkus Reviews writes, "While researched satisfactorily, her approach to site-specific history tends to the parochial, and without an authority's ability to synthesize place and past, even the most notable locales cannot convey the complexities of the Wars of Religion or the Albigensian Crusade."{{cite news |title=THE ROAD FROM THE PAST |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ina-caro/the-road-from-the-past/ |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=July 1, 1994}}

In 2011, Kirkus Reviews describes Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train as "a lovely, fresh take on why we keep going back to France’s gorgeous, well-preserved treasures," and "A nicely organized, reliable companion for touring by train from Paris." Charles Solomon of the Los Angeles Times describes Caro as "an unabashedly enthusiastic guide," but "Caro’s accounts of French history sometimes feel spotty," and "Caro tends to repeat points, sometimes nearly verbatim," which "make the book read like a series of collected magazine articles, rather than a unified narrative."{{cite news |last1=Solomon |first1=Charles |title=Book review: 'Paris to the Past' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-jun-30-la-et-book-20110630-story.html |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=June 30, 2011}} Publishers Weekly writes, "Almost despite itself, the book is a seductive evocation of the ancien régime: aristocrats were rapacious brutes, Caro allows, but she can’t resist their castles, tastes, and sexual intrigues."{{cite news |title=Paris to the Past: Traveling Through French History by Train |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780393078947 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=March 28, 2011}} Jonathan Yardley writes for The Washington Post "Yes, the author’s presence is inevitable in travel writing and in the right author’s hand can be invaluable. That is not the case in "Paris to the Past," which not merely natters and babbles but also sees the French past—all too much of which is violent, bloody and autocratic—through rose-tinted glasses."{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/paris-to-the-past-by-ina-caro/2011/06/13/AGCXyVjH_story.html|title="Paris to the Past," by Ina Caro|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 24, 2011|first=Jonathan|last=Yardley|access-date=July 3, 2021}}

Ina Caro lives with her husband in New York.{{cite news |title=Robert Caro Writes, and Waits, during the COVID-19 Outbreak |url=https://www.thenationalherald.com/culture_arts_literature/arthro/robert_caro_writes_and_waits_during_the_covid_19_outbreak-292227/ |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=The National Herald |agency=Associated Press |date=May 9, 2020 |archive-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711145233/https://www.thenationalherald.com/culture_arts_literature/arthro/robert_caro_writes_and_waits_during_the_covid_19_outbreak-292227/ |url-status=dead }} They have one son and three grandchildren.{{cite news |last1=Marchese |first1=David |title=Robert A. Caro on the Means and Ends of Power |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/01/magazine/robert-caro-working-memoir.html |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=April 1, 2019}}

• The Road from the Past: Traveling Through History in France (Doubleday, 1994)
• The Road from the Past: Traveling Through History in France (Mariner Books, 1996)
• Paris to the Past: Traveling Through French History by Train (W.W. Norton, 2011){{cite news|last1=Syme|first1=Rachel| title=The Golden Age Of Parisian Nostalgia Has Arrived, And So Have The Books|url= https://www.npr.org/2011/06/22/137321262/the-golden-age-of-parisian-nostalgia-has-arrived-and-so-have-the-books |newspaper=NPR|date=June 22, 2011}}

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• [https://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/05/21/daily-circuit-paris-to-the-past Ina Caro on exploring French history by train] (MPR News, May 20, 2012)
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