Caleb Carr

Caleb Carr is an American author that writes fiction and nonfiction works in a variety of genres ranging from diplomatic and military history, historical thrillers, and terrorism. He was born on August 2 1955 in Manhattan, New York in the Lower East side. He always had an interest in military history right from the time he attended St Luke’s School and Friends Seminary for his primary and secondary education respectively. He would later attend Kenyon College in Ohio from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Military and Diplomatic History. Much of his fiction is on the theme of violence by persons that were once victims of child abuse. Carr is best placed to write on the subject, having had an abusive father that inflicted emotional and physical abuse on his entire family. Despite the violence in his home, Caleb Carr asserts that he formed a very strong bond with his siblings that included his three brothers and the three daughters of his stepfather. During his younger years, Carr spent most of his time in New York movie theaters watching classic, war, and military history movies, as he had a desire to find violence meted out within an ethical code, and that had a purpose.