Pulitzer Prize-winning Author is Keynote for Hospitality Forum in NY

Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "Team of Rivals" will soon be a movie directed by Steven Spielberg.

by Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 6/19/2008

Organizers of the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show (IH/M&RS) have booked a Pulitzer Prize-winning author for its the 5th annual Hospitality Forum on November 9. The forum precedes the 2008 edition of IH/M&RS, which will run November 9-11 at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

Godwin is the author of #1 New York Times best-selling book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" and "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt," which garnered her the Pulitzer Prize. She will address more than 700 senior level hospitality managers, presenting successes and failures of some of the country's greatest leaders -- including Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson -- and relating them to the politics of today.

Godwin's accolades for "Team of Rivals" include the 2006 Lincoln Prize, the inaugural New York Historical Society Book Prize, the Richard Nelson Current Award, and the New York State Archives History Makers Award. Plans are currently underway to turn the book into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg.

The forum will also include a CEO Leadership Panel and U.S. Lodging Industry Summit Panel. Tickets are $129 each and will be available online at IH/M&RS.