Doris Kearns Goodwin was born January 4 1943 in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Rockville Center , Long Island. She received her undergraduate degree from Colby College in 1964 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Goodwin went to Washington DC as a White House Fellow in 1967 during the Johnson administration. She is the author of Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream (1977), The Fitzgeralds & The Kennedys (1987), No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II (1995), and Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997). She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time.