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.

Bibliography

• Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream (1977)
• The Fitzgeralds & The Kennedys (1987)
• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II (1995)
• Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997)
• Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005)