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Ana Marie Cox
Ana Marie Cox on May 8, 2007
Born (1972-09-23) September 23, 1972 (age 51)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Chicago
OccupationEditor
Employer(s)Congressional Quarterly
Time magazine
Radar
Known forThe political blog Wonkette
SpouseChris Lehmann

Ana Marie Cox (born September 23 1972) is an American author and blogger who is the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette and is widely considered synonymous with the title. She is Washington editor of the Time.com web site and previously held the same position at the defunct Radar Magazine.[1]

Biography

Cox was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She attended high school at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she wrote for the school's newspaper, The Clarion. She graduated from the University of Chicago with an AB in History in 1994. She began graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was studying American history, but quit to avoid the student loans and instead became an editorial assistant at the publishing company Alfred A. Knopf. [1]

Cox is the former executive editor of Suck.com, where she wrote under the pen name "Ann O'Tate." Prior to joining the Suck team, she was an editor of the progressive online magazine, Bad Subjects.

In 2004, Cox became the founding editor of political blog Wonkette. Under her tenure, Wonkette was a sportive commentary on Capitol Hill Washington Politics, as well as more serious matters of politics and policy. Cox and Wonkette gained notoriety in the political world for publicizing the story of Jessica Cutler, also known as "Washingtonienne", a staff assistant to Senator Mike DeWine (R.-Ohio), who accepted money from a Bush administration official and others in exchange for sexual favors. On January 5 2006, she officially announced her retirement as the blog's editor and her imminent transition to "Wonkette Emeritus".

Her novel Dog Days,[2] a satire of Washington D.C. life for which she was reportedly paid $250,000, was published on January 6, 2006. July 27 2006 she was named the Washington editor of Time.com, where she also writes "The Ana Log". She is also under a mid-six-figures contract with Penguin to write a nonfiction book.[3]

On April 12, 2007, Cox claimed on Time's website that she agreed to appear on Don Imus's radio show, despite the show's history of racially and sexually charged content, because she wanted to be considered part of the media elite. Cox wrote: "I'm embarrassed to admit that it took Imus' saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along. I did the show almost solely to earn my media-elite merit badge."[4]

Cox announced on December 5, 2008, that she would no longer be contributing to Time's Swampland blog[5].

January 19th, 2009, she debuted on Air America Media as its first Washington, D.C.-based national correspondent.[6]

Cox is married to Chris Lehmann, formerly of The Washington Post and New York and now an editor at Congressional Quarterly, and lives in Washington, D.C.

She is a frequent guest on The Rachel Maddow Show.

In 2009, on an Amtrak train from New York to Washington, Cox went into anaphylactic shock after eating a lentil salad. Fox News host Greta Van Susteren saw her choking and came to her aid with an EpiPen she always carries, after which Cox recovered. Cox later personally thanked Greta for saving her life.[7]

In 2009, Cox also became a contributing editor for Playboy Magazine.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Divided She Fell". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  2. ^ Cox, Ana Marie (2006). Dog Days. New York City: Riverhead Books. ISBN 9781594489013. OCLC 61758736. LCCN 20-5 – 0.
  3. ^ "Wonkette's Sex Change". The Washington Post. 2006-01-04. Retrieved 2008-04-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ Cox, Ana Marie (2007-04-12). "An Imus Guest Says No More". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-18. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ Cox, Ana Marie (2008-12-05). "So Long, Farewell, However You Spell Auf Wiedersehn". Time.com. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ "Former 'Wonkette' Cox Joins Air America date=2009-01-13". {{cite web}}: Missing pipe in: |title= (help)
  7. ^ "Greta Van Susteren Saves Ana Marie Cox's Life". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help).
  8. ^ "The Rachel Maddow Show for Thursday, May 21, 2009". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)


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