life Growing up on Long Island, Goodwin was a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. She remembered that her father would have her document the events of a baseball game from the radio, and "replay" the events for him when he returned home. Goodwin stopped following baseball after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, but later became a Boston Red Sox fan while attending Harvard, and is now a season ticket holder. In 1975, Kearns married Richard N. Goodwin, who had worked in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations as an adviser and speechwriter. The two met in mid-1972 at Harvard's Institute of Politics. Richard Goodwin was a widower who had a son, also named Richard, from his first marriage. At the time he and Kearns married, his son was nine years old. The couple, who lived in Concord, Massachusetts, had two sons together, Michael and Joseph. Richard Goodwin died on May 20, 2018, after a brief battle with cancer. Bibliography References External links Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin, A DISCUSSION WITH National Authors on Tour'' TV Series, Episode #116 (1994) 1943 births 20th-century American biographers American women biographers 20th-century American educators 20th-century American historians 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American biographers 21st-century American educators 21st-century American historians 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American women writers American corporate directors American memoirists American people of Irish descent American women political scientists American political scientists American political writers American women historians American women journalists Colby College alumni Educators from Massachusetts Educators from New York (state) Harvard University alumni Harvard University faculty Historians of Abraham Lincoln Historians of the United States Journalists from New York City Journalists from Washington, D.C. Living people Lyndon B. Johnson administration personnel Military writers Miller Center Affiliates National Humanities Medal recipients Northwest Airlines People from Concord, Massachusetts People from Rockville Centre, New York People involved in plagiarism controversies Political science educators Pulitzer Prize for History winners South Side High School (Rockville Centre) alumni Lincoln Prize winners American women memoirists Women military writers Writers from Brooklyn Writers from Massachusetts Writers from Washington, D.C. 20th-century American women educators 21st-century American women educators