Janet Hook is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times Washington D.C. bureau and covered Congress and national politics as a senior Washington correspondent for the paper since 1995. [CR-LF][CR-LF]She began her journalism career as the assistant editor at the Public Interest in 1978. She became an assistant editor for the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 1983 she began work for the Congressional Quarterly as senior writer. In 1993, [CR-LF][CR-LF]Hook was awarded the John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists award and the Everett Dirksen Award for her distinguished reporting on Congress. In 2002, She won the American Political Science Association's annual award for political reporting. [CR-LF][CR-LF]She resides with her husband, William Patterson and two sons in the Washington D.C. area. Hook earned a bachelors degree from Harvard University.

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