Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin presents her ‘Unfinished Love Story’ at Mark Twain House & Museum

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and media personality Doris Kearns Goodwin will be discussing her recently released memoir with Gov. Ned Lamont at a sold-out event on May 29 at 7 p.m. at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford.

The memoir is titled “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” and is framed by Goodwin and her husband of 42 years, Dick Goodwin, a former speechwriter for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, as they looked through 100s of boxes of letters and memorabilia he saved before he died in 2018.

Doris Kearns Goodwin won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for her book “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front During World War II.” Her “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” formed the basis of the Steven Spielberg film “Lincoln.” Among her other books are “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism,” “Leadership in Turbulent Times” and “Every Four Years: Presidential Campaign Coverage from 1896 to 2000.” She graduated from Harvard University and later taught classes on government there.

Goodwin has been a regular guest on NBC’s “Meet the Press” for decades and has even appeared on “The Simpsons” and “American Horror Story.”

Goodwin, who has lived in Massachusetts for decades, has held multiple talks and readings in Connecticut, as well as a couple of Connecticut Forum events at The Bushnell. In 2022, she spoke at a 90th-anniversary event for the Greenwich Historical Society. On June 4, she will be speaking at the Westport Public Library.

“We have long wanted to bring one of America’s preeminent presidential historians to Mark Twain’s historic home in Hartford,” said Michael L. Campbell, interim executive director of the Mark Twain House & Museum. “We are incredibly grateful to Governor Lamont for making this event possible and for joining Doris Kearns Goodwin in conversation on our stage. We are looking forward to hosting an unforgettable evening.”