Doris Kearns-Goodwin
Author and presidential historian

Ms. Goodwin is the author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1993), which received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History.

She has also written about other presidents and their families. Her works include The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987), which was made into a six hour television mini-series on ABC in 1990, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976). Ms. Goodwin worked as an assistant to President Johnson during his last year in the White House and later assisted him in the preparation of his memoirs.

Ms. Goodwin received her Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught there for nearly a decade.

Ms. Goodwin is also lifelong baseball fan, first of the Brooklyn Dodgers, then the Boston Red Sox. She was the first woman journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room and she served as a consultant for Ken Burns' PBS documentary The History of Baseball.