I don't think I'll ever be nominated for the esteemed Pulitzer Prize, but an individual named "Kearns Goodwin" will. Not only was they nominated, they won and are the answer behind the August 12th two-down clue in today's NYT Mini.
Historian and bestselling author Doris Kearns Goodwin on the presidential race
Even the clues to this difficult answer are tricky, so let's stop the conversation and tell you the answer.
“DORIS” is the answer to two down in today’s NYT Mini Crossword. Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for her work “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.”
For my deeper clues, I used the name Boris Becker as inspiration for clue one, a former three-time Wimbledon winner, and Doris Day, the iconic singer and actress.
