Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winner and world-renowned historian, has also been writing and speaking around the world about politics and baseball for over two decades. Author of several best-selling biographies and a memoir of her childhood love for the Brooklyn Dodgers, she currently serves as an NBC-TV news analyst as well as a consultant and on-air person for PBS documentaries on Lyndon B. Johnson, the Kennedy Family, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ken Burns' The History of Baseball. Goodwin was the first female journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room.

Doris Kearns Goodwin was born and raised on Long Island, New York. She received her B.A. from Colby College, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the international honor society. She received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, where she later taught Government including a course on the American Presidency. Goodwin next served as an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson in his last year in the White House and later assisted Johnson in the preparation of his memoirs.

In 1976, Goodwin's Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream became her first New York Times best seller. Her 1987 political biography, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys , was on The New York Times Best-Seller List for five months and in 1990 it was made into a six-hour ABC miniseries.

Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War II. Also a New York Times best seller, this highly acclaimed work won the Harold Washington Literary Award, the New England Bookseller Association Award, the Ambassador Book Award, and the Washington Monthly Book Award.

Goodwin's best-selling book, Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, published in 1997, is about growing up in the 1950's in love with the Brooklyn Dodgers. A Washington Post reviewer wrote, "This is a book in the grand tradition of girlhood memoirs, dating from Louisa May Alcott to Carson McCullers and Harper Lee." It has been optioned for a musical.

Her most recent work, a monumental history of Abraham Lincoln entitled Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, published in October 2005, joined the best seller lists on its first week in publication, and soon reached #1 on The New York Times Best-Seller List. Team of Rivals won the 2006 Lincoln Prize for an outstanding work about the president and/or the Civil War, and the inaugural New York Historical Society Book Prize. Steven Spielberg is developing a feature film about the book, set to star Liam Neeson as Lincoln.

Doris Kearns Goodwin lives in Concord, Massachusetts with her husband Richard Goodwin. Doris and Richard Goodwin will be Distinguished Writers in Resdience at the Festival of the Arts BOCA 2010.