ELON COLLEGE – Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 14 in McCrary Theatre in the Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts on the Elon College campus.
The speech “Shared Memories: Lessons of History” is free and open to the public. Goodwin will give the keynote address during Founders Week, which celebrates the college’s chartering by the North Carolina Legislature on March 11, 1889.
Goodwin received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History for the book, “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War II.” Her other books are “Lyndon Johnson and The American Dream,” “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,” which was made into a six-hour television mini-series on ABC, and “Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir.”
She is a commentator for NBC and a regular panelist on PBS’s “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.” An expert on baseball, she was the first woman journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room. She has written numerous articles on politics and baseball for leading national publications.
Goodwin received her bachelor’s degree at Colby College. For 10 years she was a professor of government at Harvard University, where she received her doctorate in government in 1968.
Before teaching at Harvard, she was an assistant to President Johnson during his last year in the White House. She later assisted him with the preparation of his memoirs.
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