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Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy
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Doris Kearns Goodwin to deliver The 17th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy Monday, March 29, 2004. 6:30 p.m. Concert Hall of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, DC Sold Out

Doris Kearns Goodwin, world-renowned journalist, has been reporting on politics and baseball for over two decades. Mrs. Goodwin is the author of several books and has written for leading national publications. She is a commentator for NBC, and 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. She was the first female journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room.

Mrs. Goodwin received her B.A. from Colby College, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. While at Colby, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the international honor society. She received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, where she taught Government including a course on the American Presidency. Following her tenure at Harvard, Mrs. Goodwin served as an assistant to Lyndon Johnson in his last year in the White House. She later assisted Johnson in the preparation of his memoirs.

In 1976, Mrs. Goodwin authored Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream, which became a New York Times bestseller. She followed up in 1987 with the political biography, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, which stayed on the New York Times Bestseller List for five months. In 1990, it was made into a six-hour ABC miniseries. Her next book, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War II, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in April, 1995, as well as the Harold Washington Literary Award, the New England Bookseller Association Award, the Ambassador Book Award, and the Washington Monthly Book Award. It was a New York Times bestseller for six months. Today, she is writing a monumental work dedicated to the life of Lincoln, which has already been optioned for the production of a major motion picture by Steven Spielberg.

Mrs. Goodwin's book, Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, published in 1997, is about growing up in the 1950's in love with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It has been a New York Times bestseller, as well as a Book of the Month Club selection. 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.

Mrs. Goodwin is married to Richard Goodwin, who worked in the White House under both Kennedy and Johnson. Mr. Goodwin's experience as the investigator who uncovered the quiz show scandals of the 1950's was captured in the recent Academy Award-nominated movie Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford. Mrs. Goodwin has three sons.