Doris Kearns Goodwin

Boston, MA

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a renowned presidential historian, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author, and co-founder of the film and television production company Pastimes Productions. She is the author of seven critically acclaimed and bestselling books, including No Ordinary Time, Team of Rivals, and The Bully Pulpit. She was the first and only historian to receive the Lincoln Leadership Prize from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation. Her most recent title, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, was an instant bestseller and is the basis for HISTORY’s miniseries on Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt. The Briscoe Center for American History houses the papers of both Doris and her husband, Richard N. Goodwin, who was a senior adviser and legendary speechwriter in the Kennedy and Johnson presidential administrations