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Caleb Carr Lives in a Very Dark Place
In 1960, the writer and military historian Caleb Carr was five years old and living with his family in a small house on Horatio Street in Greenwich Village. His journalist father Lucien Carr would have loud, wild parties with the writers Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, and the poet Allen Ginsberg, the literary trio at the heart of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. Lucien Carr had brought these men together at Columbia University in the 1940s.
The drunken parties would often end in screaming and fighting, with furniture breaking. “I would sit at the top of the stairs, listening,” said Caleb Carr, from his home in upstate New York, “trying to figure it out. What the hell was going on? It never made any sense.”
The Carr household was not a safe place for the three sons. According to Carr, his father was an alcoholic, psychologically abusive to his mother and brothers, often singling out Caleb, the middle son, for physical abuse that continued even after his parents divorced when he was eigh
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Caleb Carr
American military historian and author (1955–2024)
For other people named Caleb Carr, see Caleb Carr (disambiguation).
Caleb Carr (August 2, 1955 – May 23, 2024) was an American military historian and author.[2][3] Carr was the second of three sons born to Lucien Carr and Francesca Von Hartz.[4]
Carr authored The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness, Casing the Promised Land, The Lessons of Terror, Killing Time, The Devil Soldier, The Italian Secretary, and The Legend of Broken, as well as 'My Beloved Monster', a memoir about his relationship with Masha, his half-wild Siberian Forest Cat. He previously taught military history at Bard College, and worked extensively in film, television, and the theater. His military and political writings appeared in numerous magazines and periodicals, among them The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lived in upstate New York.[5]
Early years and education
Carr was born on August 2, 1955, in Manhattan,[6][7] on
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Caleb Carr is an American novelist and military historian. He has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs Quarterly, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and taught military history, including World Military History, the History of American Intelligence, and Insurgency/Counterinsurgency, at Bard College. He was born in Manhattan, and for the majority of his life he lived on the Lower East Side of that city, spending his summers and many weekends at his family's home in Cherry Plain, New York. In 2000, he purchased his own property, known as Misery Mountain, in Cherry Plain; and in 2006 he moved there permanently. He was educated at St. Luke's School and Friends Seminary in New York, Kenyon College, and New York University, where he gained a degree in Military and Diplomatic History. He is the author of ten books, several of which, most notably the historical thriller The Alienist, have become international best-sellers and prize-winners, and his work has been translated into over two dozen languages. His book, The Lessons of Terror, concern
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