Rachel S. Cox
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Rachel S. Cox | |
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| Pen name | Rachel Cox |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Into Dust and Fire
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Rachel Cox is a journalist and the author of Into Dust and Fire.
Cox grew up surrounded by her father's large, tightly knit family. Her father was one of "five remarkable brothers" who included Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and her mysterious uncle Robert who was one of the first Americans to serve in World War II.[1]
From a young age Cox was fascinated with her uncle Robert who was killed in the war. Yet her family rarely talked about him, and Cox was "left to conjecture about anything more" about her uncle.[2] Later, his story became the inspiration for her book Into Dust and Fire. In an interview about her book, she said, "Researching Into Dust and Fire was a kind of liberation from those familial constraints."[2]
Cox has two sons and currently lives in Washington, D.C.[3]
Career
Cox earned a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in English from Harvard University, where she wrote her thesis on Thomas Hardy.[4][5]
She is a contributing writer for CQ Researcher, an award-winning weekly magazine published by Congressional Quarterly. Her articles have appeared in Washington Post, World War II Magazine, AARP Bulletin, Landscape Architecture, as well as other nationally-published magazines. Cox is a former editor of Preservation magazine.[6] In her role as a staff writer at Time-Life Books, she wrote for the Civil War and the Fighting Jets series.[5][7]