| Doris Kearns Goodwin  AKA Doris Helen Kearns
Born: 4-Jan-1943
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Team of Rivals Father: Michael Francis Aloysius Kearns (bank examiner)
Mother: Helen Miller Kearns (homemaker, d. 1958, heart attack)
Sister: Charlotte
Sister: Jeanne
Husband: Richard N. Goodwin (m. 14-Dec-1975)
Son: Richard (stepson)
Son: Michael
Son: Joseph
High School: South Side Senior High School, Rockville Center, NY (1960)
University: BA, Colby College (1964)
University: PhD Government, Harvard University
Professor: Government, Harvard University (ten years)
Administrator: Board of Overseers, Harvard University (1999-2005)
White House Staff (1960s)
White House Fellows 1967
Member of the Board of Northwest Airlines (1997-2008)
Academy of Achievement (1996)
Center for the Study of the Presidency
Roosevelt Institute Board of Governors
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Pulitzer Prize for History 1995 for No Ordinary Time
Barnard Medal of Distinction 2000
Wedding: Jack Welch and Suzy Wetlaufer (2004)
Funeral: Tim Russert (2008)
Funeral: Ted Kennedy (2009)
TELEVISION
PBS NewsHour Panelist
Meet the Press Panelist
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Baseball (18-Sep-1994) · Herself
Official Website:
http://www.doriskearnsgoodwin.com/
Author of books:
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976, history)
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (1987, biography)
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1994, novel)
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997, nonfiction)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005, nonfiction)
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