Christopher Noxon
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Christopher Noxon is an American writer. His first book, Rejuvenile, was published in 2006. He has also written for The New York Times magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, and Salon.com. He is married to television writer Jenji Kohan.
Noxon began his career in newspapers, working as an editor, enterprise reporter and arts critic for the L.A. Daily News, the Cape Cod Publishing Company and the Los Angeles Independent Newspaper Group, where he won two first-place honors from the LA Press Club for feature and news reporting. As a freelancer, he covered the Democratic National Convention for Reuters; lived as a patient with recovering addicts for a 'Playboy' feature about troubles with drug rehab; wrote about marketing and new media for Kurt Andersen and Michael Hirschorn’s Inside.com; and was the first journalist to report on actor Mel Gibson’s ties to an ultraconservative Catholic splinter group in a feature for The New York Times Magazine.
Broadcast experience includes commentaries for the public radio programs “Marketplace” and “To the Best of Our Knowledge” and a stint working in new media at the British Broadcast Corporation in London. He has also developed programming for the Viacom network VH1 and served as music supervisor on the Showtime series Weeds.
Along the way, he worked as a costumed character at Universal Studios, answered letters of complaint at L’Oreal cosmetics, and was director of communications for Michael Milken’s prostate cancer charity.
[edit] Trivia
- He was a guest of the June 29, 2006, episode of The Colbert Report.
[edit] References
New York Times profile of Jenji Kohan. Retrieved on July 28, 2006.
