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.
TV credits
Rated 7.3 out of 10
Kevin Costner's The West
2025
Rated 7.7 out of 10
Abraham Lincoln
2022
Rated 8.0 out of 10
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Rated 6.1 out of 10
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Rated 7.7 out of 10
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
Rated 8.1 out of 10
American Horror Story
2011
Rated 10.0 out of 10
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
2010
Rated 6.9 out of 10
The Colbert Report
2005
Rated 6.8 out of 10
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Rated 6.4 out of 10
The Daily Show
1996
Rated 7.5 out of 10
Baseball
1994
Rated 7.3 out of 10
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Rated 5.4 out of 10
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Rated 8.0 out of 10
The Simpsons
1989
Rated 6.5 out of 10
American Experience
1988
Rated 6.7 out of 10
CNN Special Report
1980
Rated 7.5 out of 10
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Rated 4.6 out of 10
Meet the Press
1947