DORIS GOODWIN

Biography

Doris Helen Keorns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and
political commentator. In 1964 Kearns received a bachelor’s degree from Colby College, Waterville,
Maine, and in 1968 she earned a doctorate in government from Harvard University, where she later
taught government. Goodwin won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in history for her No Ordinary Time:
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1994), and in 2005 she
published Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, which focused on Lincoln’s
management of his presidential cabinet. The book served as the primary source for Steven Spielberg’s
biographical film Lincoln (2012). She later wrote The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William
Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (2013) and Leadership in Turbulent Times (2018).
In addition to her works of presidential scholarship, Goodwin wrote Wait till Next Year: A Memoir
(1997), about growing up in the 1950s and her love for the Brooklyn Dodgers. She also served as a
news analyst for NBC and as a consultant for Ken Burns’s documentary Baseball (1994).