Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Born January 4, 1943 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Doris Helen 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.
Awards & recognition
- Carl Sandburg Literary Award · 2015
- American History Book Prize · 2006
- Lincoln Prize · 2006
- Charles Frankel Prize · 1996
- Pulitzer Prize — History · 1995
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- National Humanities Medal
- The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal
Filmography16 titles
The Obama Years: The Power of Words
American Horror Story
The Simpsons
Abraham Lincoln
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Spielberg
Baseball
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Kevin Costner's the West
Washington
The Colbert Report
FDR
Lincoln
American Experience
The Daily Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert