Ana Marie Cox
| Ana Marie Cox | |
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Cox in 2007
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| Born |
September 23, 1972 San Juan, Puerto Rico, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Senior Political Correspondent |
| Employer | MTV News |
| Known for | The political blog Wonkette |
| Spouse(s) | Chris Lehmann (divorced) John W. Ramonas |
Ana Marie Cox (born September 23, 1972) is an American author, blogger, political columnist, and culture critic. The founding editor of the political blog Wonkette, she is currently the senior political correspondent for MTV News and conducts the "Talk" interviews featured in The New York Times Magazine.
Most recently Cox was the Washington correspondent for GQ. Cox has been a contributor for The Daily Beast since 2009. She previously worked at Air America Media. She was a lead blogger on U.S. politics for The Guardian, until August 2014. and an editor at Mother Jones.
She was named the regular The New York Times Magazine Talk section interviewer beginning on October 4, 2015.
Cox was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her family is originally from Texas and is of Scots-Irish descent. She attended 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 A.B. in history in 1994. She began graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was studying American history, but left school and instead became an editorial assistant at the publishing company Alfred A. Knopf.
Cox was an editor of the progressive online magazine Bad Subjects. Later, she was an executive editor of Suck.com, where she wrote under the pen name Ann O'Tate (wordplay on ).
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