Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American author and historian known for her highly regarded presidential studies. Named a White House fellow in 1967, Goodwin met President Johnson, who asked her to help with his memoirs despite the fact that she had cowritten an article critical of the Vietnam War. Her acquaintance with Johnson resulted in her first book, "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream" (1976). She has described her love of and dedication to chronicling history this way: “There’s something about history that I think everyone should love. It’s about people. It’s about conflict. … Just as we learn from our parents and our grandparents, we can learn from figures in history.” Goodwin won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in history for her "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II" (1994), and in 2005 she published "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", which focused on Lincoln’s management of his presidential cabinet. The book served as the primary source for Steven Spielberg’s biographical film "Lincoln" (2012). She later wrote "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism" (2013) and "Leadership in Turbulent Times" (2018).