Doris Kearns Goodwin

At-a-Glance

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1995 for "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II."
Author of "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s" (2024), an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
Authored "Team of Rivals," which received the Lincoln Prize, the inaugural Book Prize for American History, and the Lincoln Leadership Prize.
Co-founder of Pastimes Productions Inc., which executive produces docuseries for The History Channel.
Earned a PhD in government from Harvard University in 1968.
Taught government at Harvard University for ten years.

Biography

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and public speaker. She is known for her biographies of U.S. presidents and her role as a political commentator. Goodwin is also a partner in Pastimes Productions, which executive produces historical docuseries.

Her extensive bibliography includes eight critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling books.