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Political columnist Robert Novak dead at age 78
Political columnist and television personality Robert Novak has died at age 78 after a battle with brain cancer, according to his newspaper, The Chicago Sun-Times.
With Rowland Evans, he started a political column called “Inside Report.” Later, they took their act to television as “Evans and Novak.” He also created CNN’s “The Capitol Gang” and co-hosted that network’s “Crossfire.” In addition, he appeared as a panelist on Public Television’s “The McLaughlin Group.”
Novak, who the Sun-Times reports relished his “Prince of Darkness” public persona, was famously involved in the Valeria Plame incident in 2003.
On a somewhat personal note, Novak was born and raised in Joliet, Illinois — about thirty minutes away from my childhood home. His first newspaper job was at the Joliet Herald-News, a paper for which I once worked, and I grew up reading his work.
You can read the entire Sun-Times story by clicking here.
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