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GLENN INSTITUTE PRESENTS DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN ON JAN. 26

COLUMBUS - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will deliver a free public address at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 26 at Mershon Auditorium, 1871 N. High St. Goodwin's visit is sponsored by The Ohio State University's John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy.

Kearns Goodwin is the best-selling author of three acclaimed presidential biographies, including No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front In World War II, for which she received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for history.

In her Ohio State talk, "Shared Memories: The Lessons of History," Kearns Goodwin will discuss her experiences in writing biographies of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy as well as the process of writing Wait Until Next Year, her memoir of growing up in the 1950s and following her beloved Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team.

A commentator for NBC News and a regular panelist on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Kearns Goodwin also has been a resource on- and off-camera for PBS documentaries about the Kennedy family and Presidents Johnson and Roosevelt, and for Ken Burns' The History of Baseball.

There are no tickets or reserved seating for the lecture. Doors will open at 2:30 p.m., and public parking is available at the Ohio Union garage.

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Contact: The John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, (614) 292-4545.