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Doris Kearns Goodwin

American biographer and historian · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1943 · age 83

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. 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.

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2015Carl Sandburg Literary AwardAward2006American History Book PrizeAwardLincoln PrizeAward1996Charles Frankel PrizeAward1995Pulitzer Prize for HistoryAward1943Born4 January 1943

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Carl Sandburg Literary Award2015
Lincoln Prize2006
American History Book Prize2006
Charles Frankel Prize1996
Pulitzer Prize for History1995
National Humanities Medal
The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal

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Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington. She was also executive producer of Abraham Lincoln, a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times.

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Born 1943 · age 83

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