Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Pulitzer Prize winner author biographer historian

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for her influential biographies of U.S. presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Aliases (1)

Doris Helen Kearns ×1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Pulitzer Prize winner → author → biographer → historian →
academicDegree	PhD in government →
awardReceived	Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction → Lincoln Prize → National Humanities Medal → Pulitzer Prize for History →
birthName	Doris Helen Kearns →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1943-01-04 →
educatedAt	Colby College → Harvard University →
employer	Harvard University →
familyName	Goodwin →
fieldOfWork	American history → presidential history →
gender	female →
genre	biography → history →
givenName	Doris →
hasWrittenAbout	Abraham Lincoln → Franklin D. Roosevelt → Kennedy family → Lyndon B. Johnson → Theodore Roosevelt → William Howard Taft →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences →
name	Doris Kearns Goodwin →
nationality	American →
notableFor	biographies of U.S. presidents → work on Abraham Lincoln → work on Franklin D. Roosevelt → work on Lyndon B. Johnson →
notableIdea	comparative study of presidential leadership →
notableWork	Leadership in Turbulent Times → Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream → No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II → Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln → The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism → The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys → Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir →
occupation	author → historian → political commentator →
placeOfBirth	Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States →
positionHeld	White House Fellow → aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson →
residence	Concord, Massachusetts, United States →
spouse	Richard N. Goodwin →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography → Pulitzer Prize for History →	notableWinner
Doris Kearns Goodwin ("Doris Helen Kearns") →	birthName
Doris Kearns Goodwin →	name