Peggy Noonan is a writer and author. She is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where her weekly column, Declarations, has run since 2000. In 2017 she won the Pulitzer prize for distinguished commentary. She is also the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, including the bestsellers “What I Saw at the Revolution,” “When Character Was King.” “John Paul the Great,” and “Simply Speaking.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for president Ronald Reagan.

In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught at Yale University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford. She lives in New York City.

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