Doris Kearns Goodwin

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1943-01-04 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York, USA

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Biography

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington.

Known For

Writer

2022
2012
Lincoln

as Book

Producer

Kevin Costner's The West

as Executive Producer

2023
FDR

as Executive Producer