Christopher Noxon

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Christopher Noxon
Born
Christopher Lane Noxon

(1968-11-21) November 21, 1968 (age 55)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist
Spouse
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(m. 1997;div. 2018)​
Children2 (1 deceased)
Parent(s) Nicolas Noxon
Mary Straley
Relatives Marti Noxon (sister)
Betty Lane (paternal grandmother)

Christopher Lane Noxon (born November 21, 1968) is an American writer and freelance journalist. [1] [2]

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Early life

Noxon was born in Los Angeles, California, to National Geographic documentary filmmaker father, Nicolas Noxon, [3] [4] and Mary Straley. [5] 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 and Salon.com.

His first book was Rejuvenile . The book, which grew out of a story he wrote for The New York Times , was reviewed in BusinessWeek, [6] The New York Sun [7] and covered by The Today Show, Good Morning America and NPR. [8] Noxon appeared on Bill Maher's "Fishbowl" and Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report". [9]

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. [10]

Personal life

In 1997, Noxon married television writer Jenji Kohan, [11] and is the brother of writer Marti Noxon. [12] Kohan and Noxon had three children. [2] [13] [14] They live in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California. [15] He is a convert to Judaism. [16] Kohan and her family are Jewish. [17] [18]

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