
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. Carr is best placed to write on the subject, having had an abusive father that inflicted emotional and physical abuse on his entire family. Much of his fiction is on the theme of violence by persons that were once victims of child abuse. He would later attend Kenyon College in Ohio from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Military and Diplomatic History. 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 was born on Augin Manhattan, New York in the Lower East side. 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.
