175th Anniversary Keynote Speaker: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin

King Center Gymnasium Thursday, October 13, 7:30pm

Renowned Historian to Deliver Keynote Address

World-renowned historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will deliver Oct. 13 the keynote address for the 175th anniversary celebration of Emory & Henry College.

Goodwin has been reporting on politics for more than two decades. The Pulitzer Prize winning author will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the King Center Gymnasium.

Her speech is part of a year-long celebration of the 175th birthday of Emory & Henry College, the oldest institution of higher education in Southwest Virginia.

Goodwin is the author of several books and has written for leading national publications. Her most recent work, a monumental history of Abraham Lincoln entitled Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, published in October 2005, joined the best-seller lists on its first week in publication, and soon reached No.1 on the New York Times Best-Seller List.

In 1976, Goodwin authored Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream, which became a NewYork Times best-seller. She followed up in 1987 with the political biography, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, which stayed on the New York Times Best-Seller List for five months. In 1990, it was made into a six-hour ABC miniseries.

Her next book, No OrdinaryTime: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War II,was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in April 1995, as well as the Harold Washington Literary Award, the New England Bookseller Association Award, the Ambassador Book Award and the Washington Monthly Book Award. It was a New York Times best seller for six months.

She appears regularly on network television programs and was an on-air consultant for PBS documentaries on Lyndon B. Johnson, the Kennedy Family, Franklin Roosevelt and Ken Burns’ The History of Baseball.

Goodwin was born and raised on Long Island, New York. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Colby College. She received her Ph.D. in government from Harvard University, where she taught government including a course on the American Presidency.

Following her tenure at Harvard, Goodwin served as an assistant to Lyndon Johnson in his last year in the White House. She later assisted Johnson in the preparation of his memoirs.

Goodwin’s book, Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, published in 1997, is about growing up in the 1950s in love with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It has been a New York Times best-seller, as well as a Book of the Month Club selection. A Washington Post reviewer wrote, “This is a book in the grand tradition of girlhood memoirs, dating from Louisa May Alcott to Carson McCullers and Harper Lee.”

Ticket Information
Admission is free but tickets are required as seating is limited. You may reserve tickets online here. Please make note of how many tickets you will need. Tickets may be picked up at the Stewart French House after Sept. 1 (during the hours of 2 p.m.- 4 p.m.). Tickets not picked up prior to the event can be picked up the night of the lecture beginning at 5 p.m. in the King Center Gymnasium Lobby.