When he came upon a passage that Struck him, he would write it down on boards if he had no paper & keep it there until he did get paper, she recalled, and then he would rewrite it and keep it in a scrapbook so that he could preserve it.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
When he came upon a passage that Struck him, he would write it down on boards if he had no paper & keep it there until he did get paper, she recalled, and then he would rewrite it and keep it in a scrapbook so that he could preserve it.
Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington. She was also executive producer of "Abraham Lincoln", a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times.
