Christopher Noxon

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

Christopher Noxon
Born	Christopher Lane Noxon (1968-11-21) November 21, 1968 (age 56) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Writer, journalist
Spouse	Jenji Kohan ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 2018)​
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,^[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]

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