Keynote Speaker

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Presidential Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning Author

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker, Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author and a partner in Pastimes Productions. She has authored eight critically acclaimed books, including the Carnegie Medal winner The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Her most recent, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, was published in Spring 2024.

Goodwin has received numerous awards for her books and career, including the Pulitzer Prize, the inaugural American History Book Prize from the New-York Historical Society, the Gold Medal for biography from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and most recently the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Colby College and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Government from Harvard University.

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