Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a historian and writer who was born on January 4, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, and who grew up in Rockville Centre, Long Island. She received her undergraduate degree from Colby College in 1964 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Goodwin went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow in 1967 during the Johnson administration.

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Historian - Writer - January 4 - 1943 - Brooklyn - New York - Rockville Centre - Long Island - Colby College - 1964 - Harvard University - Washington, D.C. - White House Fellow - Johnson

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She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time. In 1975 she married Richard N. Goodwin, who had worked in the Johnson and Kennedy administration as an advisor and a speechwriter. She is the mother of three sons, Richard, Michael and Joseph.

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Pulitzer Prize - Richard N. Goodwin

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There have been instances of plagiarism http://slate.msn.com/id/2091197/ found in "No Ordinary Time", among Goodwin's other works.

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