Christopher Noxon | |
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| Born | Christopher Lane Noxon November 21, 1968 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, journalist |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 (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]
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.
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, as well as working as a music consultant on the Showtime series Weeds.
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]
In 1997, Noxon married television writer Jenji Kohan,[10] and is the brother of writer Marti Noxon.[11] Kohan and Noxon had three children :[2] a son Charlie (who passed away in 2019), a daughter Eliza, and youngest son Oscar.[12][13] They live in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California.[14] He is a convert to Judaism.[15] Kohan and her family are Jewish;[16][17] they belong to two synagogues and a chavurah group, and her children attend Jewish day school and summer camp. Every Friday, Kohan and her extended family have Shabbat dinner together.[12]
Noxon is credited on Weeds extensively. Noxon's book Rejuvenile appears frequently in Weeds. The character Andy Botwin is seen reading Rejuvenile in season 2 episode, "Corn Snake". The character Dean Hodes is reading it in bed in episode 10 of Season 2, "Mile Deep and A Foot Wide", and the book is on display during Nancy Botwin's shopping spree in episode 8 of Season 2, "MILF Money". The character Heylia James is reading the book at the grow house in episode 14 of Season 3, "Protection".[citation needed]