Doris Kearns first came to the attention of President Lyndon Johnson when she co-wrote a very critical article on Johnson for the New Republic magazine. Several months later, when they met in person at the White House, Johnson asked her to work with him in the White House. He soon asked her to help write his memoirs.

During and after Johnson's Presidency, Kearns visited Johnson many times, and, three years after his death, published her first book, Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream. She drew on the friendship and conversations with Johnson, supplemented by careful research and critical analysis, to present a picture of his accomplishments, failures and motivations.

She married Richard Goodwin in 1975. Her husband, an advisor to John and Robert Kennedy as well as a writer, helped her to gain access to people and papers for her story on the Kennedy family, begun in 1977 and finished ten years later. This book, too, was acclaimed critically, and was made into a television movie.

In 1995 Doris Kearns Goodwin was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, No Ordinary Time. She then turned to writing a memoir of her own, about growing up as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Wait Till Next Year.

She is a regular political commentator for television and radio.

Note: I do not have Doris Kearns Goodwin's email address, mailing address or postal address. If you're trying to get in touch with her, I suggest you contact her publisher or use her website contact link To find her most recent publisher, check the "Books By Doris Kearns Goodwin" section below or her official website.
 

Doris Kearns Goodwin on the Web

Doris Kearns Goodwin - official website
Information on Goodwin and her published works. A good place to check for her latest publication.

Booknotes Transcript: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Goodwin on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Character Above All: Franklin D. Roosevelt
An excerpt from an essay written by Goodwin.

Doris Kearns Goodwin: October 17, 1997
Goodwin, a baseball fan, explains the baseball term "wait till next year."

Lessons of Presidential Leadership
From the book Leader to Leader, a chapter by Goodwin.

Doris Kearns Goodwin on this site

• Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotations

Books By Doris Kearns Goodwin

• Fitzgeralds & the Kennedys: An American Saga: 1991 (trade paperback)
  
• Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream: 1991 (trade paperback)
  
• No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt -- The Home Front in World War II: 1994 (hardcover)
  
• No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt -- The Home Front in World War II: 1995 (trade paperback)
  
• Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir: 1997 (hardcover)
  
• Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir: 1998 (trade paperback)
  
• Leader to Leader: Enduring Insights on Leadership from the Drucker Foundation's Award-Winning Journal. Editors: Paul M. Cohen, Frances Hesselbein: 1999. (hardcover) Includes an essay by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
  
   

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