Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Doris Kearns Goodwin (b. 1943), is an acclaimed presidential historian and political commentator. She has authored biographies of several US Presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995); Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (which served as a foundation for the award-winning 2012 Steven Spielberg film, Lincoln); and, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

Her most recent book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, was published in 2018. Goodwin has been interviewed extensively for documentaries on President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Kennedy Family, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Abraham and Mary Lincoln, in addition to the Ken Burns PBS series Baseball and The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.

Awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Charles Frankel Prize, the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal, the New England Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Literary Award and the Ohioana Book Award, Goodwin is described as America’s Historian-in-Chief by New York magazine.

Goodwin, an ardent Boston Red Sox fan, holds, among her many honors, the distinction of being the first female journalist to enter the team’s locker room.