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James Fox (journalist)

British journalist (born 1945) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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James Fox (born 19 November 1945) is a British journalist best known for his book, White Mischief, and for co-authoring Life, the best-selling memoir of Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards.[1]

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Life and career

Fox was born in Washington, D.C., U.S. and worked as a journalist in Africa as well as reporting for London's Sunday Times.[2] His first book, White Mischief, is an account of the Happy Valley murder case in Kenya in 1941.[3] He researched the book with Cyril Connolly in 1969 and it was later adapted into a film by Michael Radford in the 1980s.[4] Fox also wrote The Langhorne Sisters, also known as Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia.

He married the fashion designer Bella Freud in 2001. They have a son, James "Jimmy" Lux Fox. The couple separated in 2017.[5]

He has a son, Thomas, from a previous marriage with Valérie Mariane Lalonde (née Lévy)[6]

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Bibliography

Books

  • Fox, James (1982). White Mischief. London: Cape.
  • Fox, James (1999). The Langhorne Sisters, AKA Five Sisters, The Langhornes of Virginia. Granta Books. ISBN 9781862072817.

Essays and reporting

References

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