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.
Filmography
all 32
self 24
TV Shows 21
Movies 11
Producer 2
Writer 1
Executive Producer
FDR (2023)
TV
Self (Commentary) / Novel
Abraham Lincoln (2022)
TV
Self - Interviewee
The Obama Years: The Power of Words (2017)
Movie
Self - Historian
Ken Burns: America's Storyteller (2017)
Movie
Self - Biographer, Historian
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All (2014)
Movie
Self - Historian
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
TV
6
Writer
Lincoln (2012)
Movie
5.2
Doris Kearns Goodwin
American Horror Story (2011)
TV
7.18
Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
TV
6
Self - Guest
Charlie Rose (1991)
TV
Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)
The Simpsons (1989)
TV
6.75
Self (biographer of LBJ)
Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (1980)
TV
Executive Producer
Kevin Costner's The West
TV
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1943-01-04 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, New York, USA
SpouseRichard N. Goodwin
ChildrenJoe Kearns Goodwin
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsLincoln Prize, American Antiquarian Society, National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize for History, Charles Frankel Prize, Carl Sandburg Literary Award, The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal
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