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[[Image:Peggy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Peggy Noonan]] '''Peggy Noonan''' (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950, in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]) is a [[conservative]] columnist for The [[Wall Street Journal]] and best selling [[author]] of eight [[book]]s mostly on [[politics]] and [[religion]]. Her columns have also appeared in [[Forbes]], [[Time]], [[Newsweek]], the [[Washington Post]], the [[New York Times]]. <ref>http://www.peggynoonan.com/biography.php</ref>
Noonan holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, [[Miami University]], and her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University. After serving as a producer for [[CBS]] [[News]], she worked as a speech writer for [[President]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s administration. She wrote Reagan's famous 1986 speech after the [[Space]] Shuttle Challenger disaster. During the 1988 Presidential Election she also wrote memorable phrase's for then-[[Vice President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] such as "a kinder, gentler nation" and "a thousand points of light."
==Books==
*What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990)
*Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (1994)
*Simply Speaking: How to Communicate Your Ideas With Style, Substance, and Clarity (1998)
*Character Above All (1999)
*The Case Against [[Hillary Clinton]] (2000)
*When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan (2001)
*A Heart, A Cross And A Flag (2003)
*John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father (2005)
==References==
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[[Category:Women Authors]]
[[Category:Conservative Commentators]]