Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax
Carolyn Hax in a program at the NHGRI in 2014
Born	(1966-12-05) December 5, 1966 (age 50) Bridgeport, Connecticut
Occupation	author, columnist
Period	1997–present
Genre	advice

Carolyn Hanley Hax is a writer and columnist for the Washington Post and 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 newspapers. Featuring cartoons by Hax's ex-husband, Nick Galifianakis, Tell Me About It originally provided advice targeted at readers under 30, but has since broadened its audience.

Hax hosts a weekly Friday web chat, Carolyn Hax Live, at the paper's website with selected transcripts published subsequently.

Born December 5, 1966, in Bridgeport, CT, Hax grew up in Trumbull, Connecticut, the youngest of four daughters. Her father, now retired, was director of research planning at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, CT. Hax graduated from Hopkins School in 1984 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University (1988).

Hax was 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" was included in the 2006 anthology Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families (ed. Leslie Morgan Steiner; Random House, 2006).

She and her first husband, cartoonist Nick Galifianakis, divorced in June 2002, after being separated a year. Some of her readers were critical of Hax because she was pregnant with twins when she married her second husband, the father of her twins, her childhood friend Ken Ackerman, in November 2002. Hax discussed her situation in her weekly online chat, Carolyn Hax Live.