Doris Kearns Goodwin

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.

Known For

The Simpsons

The Daily Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

American Horror Story

American Experience

The Colbert Report

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

All Movies (5)

• Spielberg2017 · as Self
• JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala2017 · as Self
• The Obama Years: The Power of Words2017 · as Self - Historian
• Presidents In Crisis2017
• Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All2014 · as Self

All TV Shows (18)

• Kevin Costner's The West2025 · as Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian
• Abraham Lincoln2022 · as Self (Commentary)
• Firing Line with Margaret Hoover2018 · as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
• The Roosevelts: An Intimate History2014 · as Self - Historian
• American Horror Story2011 · as Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Baseball: The Tenth Inning2010 · as Self
• The Colbert Report2005 · as Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson2005 · as Self
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• Baseball1994 · as Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992
• The Simpsons1989 · as Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)
• American Experience1988 · as Self
• CNN Special Report1980 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• Meet the Press1947