Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist on the Wall Avenue Journal the place her column, “Declarations,” has run since 2000.

She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017.  A political analyst for NBC Information, she is the writer of 9 books on American politics, historical past and tradition, from her most up-to-date, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Noticed on the Revolution.” She is certainly one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the ebook, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a particular assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the residing recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the next 12 months she was chosen as Columnist of the Yr by The Week. She has been a fellow at Harvard College’s Institute of Politics, and has taught within the historical past division at Yale College.

Earlier than getting into the Reagan White Home, Noonan was a producer and author at CBS Information in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York College. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Lengthy Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson College in Rutherford. She lives in New York Metropolis. In November, 2016 she was named one of many metropolis’s Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.