Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan

Margaret Ellen Noonan is an American author, columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986. Noonan has maintained a center-right leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration.

About Peggy Noonan in brief

Summary Peggy NoonanMargaret Ellen Noonan is an American author, columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986. Noonan has maintained a center-right leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration. Five of Noonan’s books have been New York Times bestsellers. In 2017, Noonan won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, for connecting readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns. She is a practicing Roman Catholic and attends St. Thomas More Church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She lives in New York City with her son, Will, who was born in 1987 and her husband, Richard Rahn, who she married in 1987.

In 2004, she returned to an interview with Crisis Magazine, where she said she lived in a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights. In 2011, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on America: A Tribute to Heroes. She has appeared on ABC’s This Week and NBC’s Meet The Press. She sits on the committee and is a founding member of wowOwow.com, along with Liz Smith, Lesley Stahl, Mary Wells Lawrence, and Joni Evans. She also wrote Bush’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, in which he pledged: \”Read my lips: no new taxes\”.