Doris Kearns Goodwin
View on IMDb ↗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.
Known for
The Obama Years: The Power of Words
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
American Horror Story
The Simpsons
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Abraham Lincoln
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Spielberg
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
BaseballFilmography (24)
- 2025
Kevin Costner's The WestSelf - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian - 2022
Abraham LincolnSelf (Commentary) - 2018
Firing Line with Margaret HooverSelf - 2017
The Obama Years: The Power of WordsSelf - Historian - 2017
SpielbergSelf - 2017
Presidents In Crisis - 2017JFK: The Lost Inaugural GalaSelf
- 2015
The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf - 2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate HistorySelf - Historian - 2014
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It AllSelf - 2011
American Horror StoryDoris Kearns Goodwin - 2010
Baseball: The Tenth InningSelf - 2005
The Colbert ReportSelf - 2005
The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSelf - 1996
The Daily ShowSelf - 1994
BaseballSelf - 1994
FDRSelf — Biographer - 1993
Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest - 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - 1989
The SimpsonsDoris Kearns Goodwin (voice) - 1988
American ExperienceSelf - 1980
CNN Special ReportSelf - 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf - 1947
Meet the Press