Ina Caro
Ina Caro is an American author, medieval historian and travel writer. She is the author of The Road from the Past: Traveling Through History in France and Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train. She is married to Robert Caro, and has been his sole research assistant for his books. Biography Caro was born Ina Joan Sloshberg. 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. 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. They moved to the Bronx and she continued to support his research for his books, serving as his sole research assistant. In the late 1970s, they moved to Texas for three years to research President Johnson for The Years of Lyndon Johnson. 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. In 2011, she released the sequel Paris to the Past: