Doris Kearns Goodwin

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was born on January 4 1943 in New York City. She happened to born in Brooklyn and raised in Long Island.

She went to Colby College in Maine for her undergraduate degree.  After getting degree, she enrolled at Harvard University. In her third year of graduate degree she was awarded a White House Fellowship.

1975 she married Richard Goodwin, who had served as an adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson  They live in Concord, Massachusetts, and have three sons, Richard, Michael, and Joseph.

December 15, 1975 edition of The Crimson noted that their son Richard was nine years old at the time of their wedding and claimed that Goodwin's previous wife was his mother.

Goodwin met President Johnson in 1967, who despite the fact that she had co-written an article critical of the Vietnam War asked her to help with his memoirs. In corresponding to Johnson she published her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream ( 1976).

Her next book was The Fitzgerald and the Kennedys which was a bestselling book on the market. She was later charged in copyright case because that book contained quotations from author Lynne McTaggart. Goodwin explained that this was unintentional and it happened because of her note talking strategy of writing.

She won Pulitzer Prize in history in 1995 for her No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1994). In 2005 she published Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, which focused on Lincoln’s management of his presidential cabinet.

In 1994, she also worked as a news analyst for NBC and as a consultant for Ken Burns’s documentary Baseball.