Título: Robert Novak
Seção: Early life and early career
Background: Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak (February 26, 1931 - August 18, 2009) was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for The Wall Street Journal. He teamed up with Rowland Evans in 1963 to start Inside Report, which became the longest running syndicated political column in U.S. history and ran in hundreds of papers. They also started the Evans-Novak Political Report, a notable biweekly newsletter, in 1967.

Conteúdo: Novak was born in Joliet, Illinois, the son of Jane Sanders and Maurice Novak, a chemical engineer. His paternal grandparents immigrated from Ukraine, and his mother's family was from Lithuania. Novak's parents were secular Jews who had little interaction with their local Jewish community and rarely attended religious services. Neighbors considered Novak's family to be Polish. Novak suffered from chronic bronchitis through his early childhood, which led his mother to drive him to and from school instead of letting him walk. Because of the constant family attention, his cousins mockingly called him "Baby Jesus". Novak also loved to tease, offend, and shock his family from an early age, and he later compared himself to French rebel Bertran de Born.  Novak's journalism career began when he was in high school as a student-writer for the Joliet Herald-News, his hometown newspaper, and he received ten cents per inch. After high school, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) from 1948 to 1952. His father had attended the college, and he later remarked that "I was an Illini from birth". He became a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, at the time a mostly Jewish college fraternity, while attending the University of Illinois. Novak would later use the group's 'secret handshake' whenever he met fellow alumnus Wolf Blitzer.  He continued gaining journalism experience as a sports writer for the Daily Illini (DI), the college's student newspaper. Novak's wr

user: Who were Robert  Novak's parents?

assistant: the son of Jane Sanders and Maurice Novak,

user: What were his parents like?

assistant: Novak's parents were secular Jews who had little interaction with their local Jewish community and rarely attended religious services.

user: When did his interest in journalism begin?

assistant: Novak's journalism career began when he was in high school as a student-writer for the Joliet Herald-News, his hometown newspaper, and he received ten cents per inch.

user: Did he go to college?

assistant: he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) from 1948 to 1952.

user: Where did he work after graduation?

assistant: he joined the Associated Press (AP) and became a political correspondent in Omaha, Nebraska.

user: Did he work anywhere after that?

assistant: In 1957, Novak was transferred to Washington, D.C. where he reported on Congress.

user: Did he work with any news organizations?

assistant: He left the AP to join the D.C. bureau of The Wall Street Journal in 1958, covering the Senate.