Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr was an American novelist and military historian born in Manhattan, where he spent much of his life on the Lower East Side.
The son of Lucien Carr, a prominent Beat generation figure and former UPI editor, he pursued academic studies at Kenyon College and New York University, graduating with a B.A. in military and diplomatic history.
Carr contributed regularly to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and wrote extensively on military and political affairs.
His background in nonfiction and history deeply informed his richly detailed historical fiction writing.
