Martin F. Nolan, born 1940 in Boston, is a distinguished journalist with The Boston Globe from 1961–2001. Hired as a reporter when he graduated from college, he became Washington Bureau Chief in 1969, and Editor of the Editorial Page in 1980. His skill as a writer and administrator was integral to the Globe's rise to pre-eminence. He was a frequent commentator on television news and wrote for several leading national magazines. His oral history discusses his Irish Catholic background, his career with the Globe, the many politicians he knew, the political and cultural movements he covered, as well as the landscape of newspaper writers and columnists in his orbit.
