Person

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Acting · Born 1943-01-04 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Known for

Filmography

2025Kevin Costner's The WestSelf - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian
2023FDRExecutive Producer
2022Abraham LincolnSelf (Commentary)
2020WashingtonExecutive Producer
2018Firing Line with Margaret HooverSelf
2017SpielbergSelf
2017JFK: The Lost Inaugural GalaSelf
2017The Obama Years: The Power of WordsSelf - Historian
2017Presidents In Crisis
2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf
2014Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It AllSelf
2014The Roosevelts: An Intimate HistorySelf - Historian
2012LincolnBook
2011American Horror StoryDoris Kearns Goodwin
2010Baseball: The Tenth InningSelf
2005The Colbert ReportSelf
2005The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSelf
1996The Daily ShowSelf
1994FDRSelf — Biographer
1994BaseballSelf
1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1990The Kennedys of MassachusettsNovel
1989The SimpsonsDoris Kearns Goodwin (voice)
1988American ExperienceSelf
1980CNN Special ReportSelf
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf
1947Meet the Press
—An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960sBook

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