# Peggy Noonan 

Columnist and Author, *Wall Street Journal* 

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Peggy Noonan is a columnist for the *Wall Street Journal* whose work appears weekly in the *Journal’s Weekend Edition* and on Opin​ion​Jour​nal​.com.

Five of Noonan’s books have been *New York Times* bestsellers. Noonan is a trustee of the Manhattan Institute. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Miami University; St. John Fisher College; her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Adelphi College; and Saint Francis College. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on *America: A Tribute to Heroes*. She has also been widely recognized for her regular appearances on ABC’s *This Week* and NBC’s *Meet the Press*.

She was a special assistant to the president in the White House of Ronald Reagan. Before that she was a producer at CBS News in New York. In 1978 and 1979 she was an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.