Carolyn Hax
| Carolyn Hanley Hax | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 5, 1966 Bridgeport, Connecticut |
| Occupation | author, columnist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1997-present |
| Genres | advice |
Carolyn Hax is a writer and columnist for the Washington Post and the author of the eponymous advice column Carolyn Hax — formerly titled Tell Me About It. The column debuted in 1997 and is published Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday – syndicated in more than 200[1] newspapers. It originally provided advice targeted at people under 30, but has in recent years broadened its age range, and features cartoons by Hax's ex-husband, Nick Galifianakis.
Hax also participates in a weekly Friday web chat, Carolyn Hax Live, on the paper's website with selected transcripts published subsequently.
[edit] Background
Born December 5, 1966, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Hax grew up in Trumbull, Connecticut, the youngest of four daughters. Her father is director of research planning at Sikorsky Aircraft.[2] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University (1988). [2]
Hax had been associate editor and news editor at the Army Times and copy editor and news editor at the Washington Post. In 2001, Hax published her first book, Tell Me About It: Lying, Sulking and Getting Fat and 56 Other Things Not to Do While Looking for Love. Her essay "Peace and Carrots," which describes how she is too busy to care about the so-called "Mommy Wars", was included in the 2006 anthology Mommy Wars by her Washington Post colleague Leslie Morgan Steiner.
In 2003, Hax received scrutiny as an advice columnist when – over a two year period – she divorced her first husband, cartoonist Nick Galifianakis, and married childhood friend[1] Ken Ackerman – while pregnant with twins. Hax responded in December 2002 in her weekly online chat, Carolyn Hax Live,[1] and Galifianakis commented in 2011 on their eight year relationship, saying "We were a great couple that could maybe be greater apart. The point of the column is not to keep people together; it's for people to be happy. And sometimes being happy means making that kind of adjustment, where maybe you're not together."[3] She and Galifianakis continue to collaborate on the advice column.[2]
With Ackerman, who is a Spanish teacher and coach at the Maret School, Hax has identical twins Jonas and Percy – as well as a younger son August "Gus." They live in Washington, D.C.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "In her own defense". St. Petersburg Times, Mike Wilson, January 12, 2003. http://www.sptimes.com/2003/01/12/Floridian/In_her_own_defense.shtml.
- ^ a b c "WEDDINGS; Carolyn H. Hax, N. E. Galifianakis". The New York Times, June 26, 1994. June 26, 1994. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/26/style/weddings-carolyn-h-hax-n-e-galifianakis.html?pagewanted=1.
- ^ "Cartoonist Sees Bad Relationships In A Funny Way". NPR, February 12, 2011. http://www.npr.org/2011/02/12/133693685/cartoonist-sees-bad-relationships-in-a-funny-way?ft=1&f=1032&sc=tw.
- ^ "Class Notes, 1990". Gettysburg College, Spring 2009. http://digital.graphcompubs.com/publication/index.php?i=14539&m=&l=&p=48.
