Doris Kearns Goodwin

Ms. Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American author specializing in presidential biographies. After receiving her B.A. from Colby College, she was granted the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to obtain here Ph.D. from Harvard University. Immediately, she became a White House Fellow, working with the Lyndon B. Johnson administration that led to her first publication, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which was a New York Times bestseller and gave her national recognition. Goodwin then went on to teach government at Harvard University for ten years. She has been a frequent visitor on Meet the Press, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, CNN, and The Charlie Rose Show, discussing her award winning books such as The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War (Pulitzer Prize & Bestseller), Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (New York Times Bestseller), Every Four Years: Presidential Campaign Coverage, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Prize & American History Prize), and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Andrew Carnegie Medal). Steven Spielberg and Ms. Goodwin previously worked together on Lincoln, based in part on Ms. Goodwin's award-winning Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, an epic tome that illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.