Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She is a regular panelist on Five on Five in Boston and a political analyst for Nightline, Today, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning News. She has written about history, politics, and baseball for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Life, Redbook, Lears and TV Guide.

A former professor of government at Harvard University, she lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard Goodwin, and their three sons.