
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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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.
Born: January 4, 1943 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Filmography (20)

Kevin Costner's The West
2025

Abraham Lincoln
2022

Washington
2020

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018

Spielberg
2017

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014

Lincoln
2012

American Horror Story
2011

The Colbert Report
2005

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005

The Daily Show
1996

Baseball
1994

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

The Simpsons
1989

American Experience
1988

CNN Special Report
1980

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Meet the Press
1947
