Discipline: Literature

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Discipline: Literature
Region: Sheridan, WY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1973

Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American author, presidential historian, international keynote speaker, and founding-partner of Pastimes Productions. She graduated magna cum laude from Colby College and earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, where she also taught government courses for many years.

Goodwin boasts six critically-acclaimed New York Times bestselling books, a Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, and a Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She has served as a consultant and an interviewee for PBS, HISTORY, and HBO documentaries and productions.