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Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943)[1] 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 Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir 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.[2]


Doris Helen Kearns Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Helen Witt (née Miller) and Michael Francis Aloysius Kearns. She has a sister, Jene Kearns.[3][4] Her paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants.[5] She grew up in Rockville Centre, New York where she graduated from South Side High School.[6] She attended Colby College Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir in Maine, where she was a member of Delta Delta
Delta and Phi Beta Kappa, and was graduated magna cum laude in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1964[7] to pursue doctoral studies. In 1968, she earned a Ph.D. in government Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir from Harvard University, with a thesis titled "Prayer and Reapportionment: An Analysis of the Relationship between the Congress and the Court."[8]


In 1967, Kearns went to Washington, D.C. as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.[9] Johnson initially expressed interest in hiring the young intern as his Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir Oval Office assistant, but after an article by Kearns appeared in The New Republic laying out a scenario for Johnson's removal from office over his conduct of the war in Vietnam, she was instead assigned to the Department of Labor; Goodwin has written that she felt relieved to be able Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir to remain in the internship program in any capacity at all. "The president discovered that I had been actively involved
in the anti-Vietnam War movement and had written an article entitled, 'How to Dump Lyndon Johnson'. I thought for sure he would kick me out of the program, but instead, Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir he said, 'Oh, bring her down here for a year and if I can't win her over, no one can'."[10] After Johnson decided not to run for reelection, he brought Kearns to the White House as a member of his staff, where she focused on domestic anti-poverty efforts.[11]


After Johnson Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir left office in 1969, Kearns taught government at Harvard for 10 years, including a course on the American presidency. During this period, she also assisted Johnson in drafting his memoirs. Her first book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which drew upon her conversations with the late president, was published Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir in 1977, becoming a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career.


A sports journalist as well, Goodwin was the first female journalist to enter
the Boston Red Sox locker room in 1979. She consulted on and appeared in Ken Burns's 1994 documentary Baseball.


Goodwin Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front During World War II (1994).[12]


In 1996, Goodwin received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[13]


Goodwin received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College in 1998.[14][15][16][17][18][19] She was awarded Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir an honorary doctorate from Westfield State College in 2008.


Goodwin was on air talking to Tom Brokaw of NBC News during their 2000 Presidential Election Night Coverage when Brokaw announced NBC's projection that the state of Florida had voted for George W. Bush thus making him president.[20]


Goodwin won the Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir 2005 Lincoln Prize (for the best book about the American Civil War) for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005), a book about Abraham Lincoln's presidential cabinet. Part of the book was adapted by


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