Typewriter repairman writes 3000-page book, wins Pulitzer!
Robert Caro began writing a multipart biography that he calls He’s still working on the fifth and (allegedly) final volume. ‘In writing about me and my hopes of finishing, [journalists] often express their, a new book about his research. Yet concern over longevity might be better suited to his tools. Caro writes first drafts longhand, then types them on a Smith-Corona Electra 210 typewriter. He spoke to Popular Mechanics about the equipment that has facilitated some of the best historical writing of our time, or any time.
