Boston Globe

Nolan graduated from Boston College

Boston College

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 and became a reporter for The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

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 in 1961. While with the Globes Washington bureau, he was on the investigative team cited in the Globe's 1966 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 for meritorious and disinterested public service. He covered Congress, the White House and every presidential campaign since 1968. Nolan was named Washington bureau chief in 1969. His writing earned him a spot on the master list of Nixon political opponents

Master list of Nixon political opponents

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In 1981, he became editor of the Globe's editorial page. In 1991, he resumed reporting and in 1995 moved to San Francisco to cover California and the West. In 2001, he retired from the Globe.

Post-Globe

Nolan has since written for the California Journal, The New York Times

The New York Times

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 and the San Francisco Chronicle

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. He has been a fellow at Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

, the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

John F. Kennedy School of Government

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, and the Hoover Institute at Stanford University

Stanford University

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