Robert D. Novak

» Columnist | Robert D. Novak is a twice-weekly columnist for The Post, writing on national policy and politics. His column appears on Mondays and Thursdays.

After working for the Associated Press from 1954 to 1958, Novak joined the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal as a political reporter. In 1963, Novak teamed up with the late Rowland Evans, Jr., then congressional correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, to write the syndicated column "Inside Report," which they continued writing four times a week for 30 years. Since Evans’ retirement from the column in 1993, Novak has continued to write the column under his own byline. Novak is author of five books, including "Completing the Revolution: A Vision for Victory in 2000” (1999), and, with Rowland Evans, "The Reagan Revolution" (1981), "Nixon in the White House" (1971) and "Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power" (1966).

In 2001, Novak won the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award for lifetime achievement in journalism.