Christopher Noxon
American journalist
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Christopher Lane Noxon (born November 21, 1968) is an American writer, artist, and freelance journalist.[1][2][3]
November 21, 1968
Christopher Noxon | |
|---|---|
| Born | Christopher Lane Noxon November 21, 1968 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | Writer, journalist |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Nicolas Noxon Mary Straley |
| Relatives | Marti Noxon (sister) Betty Lane (paternal grandmother) |
Early life
Noxon was born in Los Angeles, California, to National Geographic documentary filmmaker father, Nicolas Noxon,[4][5] and Mary Straley.[6] His grandmother was painter Betty Lane.
Career
Noxon began his career at the Los Angeles Daily News. His assignments have included the Democratic National Convention for Reuters and a Playboy feature about drug rehab. Noxon has also written for Los Angeles magazine, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, and also The New Yorker magazine[7], The Atlantic magazine[8], and The New York Times Magazine[9].
His first book was Rejuvenile. The book, which grew out of a story he wrote for The New York Times, was reviewed in BusinessWeek,[10] The New York Sun[11] and covered by The Today Show, Good Morning America and NPR.[12] Noxon appeared on Bill Maher's "Fishbowl" and Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report".[13]
Noxon worked as a music consultant on the Showtime series Weeds, in which copies of his book Rejuvenile appear as a prop in some scenes.[14]
Personal life
In 1997, Noxon married television writer Jenji Kohan,[15] and is the brother of writer Marti Noxon.[16] Kohan and Noxon had three children[2][17][18]. Their firstborn died at age 20 on a skiing accident while on a family holiday trip on the last day of 2019.[19] They lived in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California[20] and later moved to Ojai, California, when he decided to start painting full time.[21] He is a convert to Judaism.[22] Kohan and her family are Jewish.[23][24]
Works and publications
- Noxon, Christopher. "I don't want to grow up!" Miller, D. Quentin. The Generation of Ideas: A Thematic Reader. Boston, Mass: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005. ISBN 978-1-413-00012-2 OCLC 57505721
- Noxon, Christopher. Rejuvenile Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. ISBN 978-0-307-35177-7 OCLC 647131378
- Noxon, Christopher. Plus One: A Novel. Altadena, California: Prospect Park Books, 2015. ISBN 978-1-938-84943-5 OCLC 900723329
- Noxon, Christopher. Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook. NY: Abrams, 2018. ISBN 9781419732355, 1419732358[25]