Doris Kearns Goodwin
Biography
Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington.
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Movies (5)
TV Shows (21)
Kevin Costner's The West
as Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian
2025
FDR
Executive Producer (Production)
2023
Abraham Lincoln
as Self (Commentary)
2022
Washington
Executive Producer (Production)
2020
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Self
2018
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as Self - Historian
2014
American Horror Story
as Doris Kearns Goodwin
2011
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
as Self
2010
The Colbert Report
as Self
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
Baseball
as Self
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Novel (Writing)
1990
The Simpsons
as Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)
1989
American Experience
as Self
1988
CNN Special Report
as Self
1980
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
Meet the Press
1947