11/22/63 "the work of a master craftsman" but commented that "the wires go slack from time to time" and the book wanders from genre to genre, particularly in the middle. More pointedly, "Los Angeles Times" book critic David Ulin called the novel "a misguided effort in story and writing"; Ulin's primary criticism is the conceit of the story, which requires the reader to follow two plotlines simultaneously – historical fiction built upon the Kennedy assassination as well as the tale of a time traveling English teacher – which adds a page load to the novel that Ulin found excessive. On September
Doris Kearns Goodwin of forty-eight times since 1994. Stephen King met with Goodwin while he was writing his novel "11/22/63", due to her being an assistant to Johnson, and King used some of her ideas in the novel on what a worst-case scenario would be like if history had changed. In 2014, Kearns won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for "The Bully Pulpit". It was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (History, 2013) and a "Christian Science Monitor" 15 best nonfiction (2013). In 2016, she appeared as herself in the fifth episode of "". In 2002, "The Weekly