Doris Kearns Goodwin (Historian ) was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA on a Monday, January 4, 1943 🎈. Doris Kearns Goodwin is 81 years old. She is a Capricorn ♑ and was born in the Year of the Goat 🐐.
An American historian, political commentator, and biographer, she is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning work, “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.” Her other works include “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga” and “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.”
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| FULL NAME: | Doris Helen Kearns |
| BIRTH DATE: | January 4, 1943 |
| BIRTHPLACE: | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| AGE: | 81 years old |
| NATIONALITY: | American |
| ETHNICITY: | White |
| ZODIAC: | Capricorn |
| CHINESE ZODIAC: | Goat |
About
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Historian. Doris was born in the 1940s, in the middle of the Baby Boomers Generation generation. Baby Boomers are individuals born between 1946 and 1964, during the post World War II baby boom. This generation is known for Rock and Roll, Woodstock, Elvis, the Beatles, miniskirts, and Barbies. Baby boomers have experienced some of the most important historical events, including the JFK Assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War.
She married political speechwriter Richard N. Goodwin in 1975. The couple became parents to three sons: Richard, Michael, and Joseph. Find out who is Doris Kearns Goodwin dating right now.
She attended Colby College and Harvard University and subsequently served as a White House Fellow during the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson. She published her debut, bestselling work, ‘Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream,’ in 1977.
DID YOU KNOW Her historical work about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War years was adapted by playwright Tony Kushner (of ‘Angels in America’ fame) into the screenplay for the 2012 Steven Spielberg film, ‘Lincoln.’
FACT She appeared in Ken Burns ‘ documentary film, “Baseball.”
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Birthday
Currently, Doris Kearns Goodwin is 81 years old. Her next birthday is away. Doris will celebrate her 82nd birthday on a Monday, January 4th. She shares a birthday with everyone who was born on January 4, 1943. Below is the countdown to her upcoming birthday.
Zodiac
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s zodiac sign is Capricorn. People born between December 22nd and January 19th belong to the tenth sign in the zodiac, Capricorn. Capricorns are known for being one of the hardest workers of the zodiac. They are ambitious, determined, and strong. Virgo is the most compatible sign for Capricorns.
Famous Capricorn celebrities are Jeff Bezos, Jared Leto, Bradley Cooper, Kate Middleton, Liam Hemsworth, Ellen Degeneres, Ryan Seacrest, John Legend, Zayn Malik, Nina Dobrev, Ross Lynch, Elvis Presley, Stan Lee, and Martin Luther King Jr. Capricorn ruling planet is Saturn. Astrologically, Saturn represents responsibility, discipline, and determination.
Doris Kearns Goodwin was born in the Year of the Goat. Goat symbolizes pureness and preciousness in Chinese culture. People born in the Year of the Goat are intelligent, creative, charming, compassionate, and gentle. They can also sometimes be unorganized, lazy, pessimistic, insecure, indecisive, anxious, and gullible.
This year is the Year of the Dragon.
DID YOU KNOW United States life expectancy is about 78.5 years.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a 81 years old Historian, born in January, in the Year of the Goat (1943), and is a Capricorn. Her life path number is 22. Doris’s birthstone is Garnet, and her birth flower is Carnation. You may also check out all famous birthdays in January or specifically birthdays on January 4.
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