Doris Kearns Goodwin

Acting

Born: 1943-01-04
From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Female
Popularity: 0.3

Also Known As

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin

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.

Awards & Nominations7 won Β· 0 nominated

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Carl Sandburg Literary Award

2015
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American History Book Prize

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

2006
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Lincoln Prize

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

2006
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Charles Frankel Prize

1996
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Pulitzer Prize for History

No Ordinary Time

1995
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National Humanities Medal

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The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal