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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

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Biography

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. 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. She was also executive producer of Abraham Lincoln, a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times.

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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

Filmography17 titles

The Obama Years: The Power of Words

2017as Self - Historian

American Horror Story

2011as Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Simpsons

1989as Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)

Abraham Lincoln

2022as Self (Commentary)

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

2014as Self - Historian

Spielberg

2017as Self

Baseball

1994as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962as Self

Kevin Costner's the West

2025as Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian

Washington

2020Executive Producer

FDR

1994as Self — Biographer

The Colbert Report

2005as Self

FDR

2023Executive Producer

Lincoln

2012Book

American Experience

1988as Self

The Daily Show

1996as Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015as Self