Christopher Cox (writer)

Christopher Cox was born in Gadsden, Alabama. At 16, he worked for conservative Senator John Sparkman as a page, but would later found a local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Alabama.^[1]

In the 1970s, he moved to Manhattan and pursued a career with the SoHo Weekly News as both a writer and photographer. Cox, who was gay,^[2] is perhaps best known for his collaboration within The Violet Quill.^[3] He later went on to become senior editor of Ballantine Books.^[4] He appeared in William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, and later directed several plays at the Jean Cocteau Theater, New York City.^[1][4]

He died of an AIDS-related infection in 1990.^[4] His partner, William Olander, had died of the same disease in 1989.^[5]

• A Key West Companion, 1983
• Aunt Persian and the Jesus Man, assembled and edited by David Bergman in 1994^[1]