| Christopher Cox | |
| Birth Name: | Ray Cox Jr. |
| Birth Date: | 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Gadsden, Alabama, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
Christopher Cox (August 27, 1949 – September 7, 1990), born Ray Cox Jr., was an American writer.
Christopher Cox was born in Gadsden, Alabama. At 16, he worked for conservative Senator John Sparkman as a page, but would later found a local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Alabama.[1]
In the 1970s, he moved to Manhattan and pursued a career with the SoHo Weekly News as both a writer and photographer. Cox, who was gay, is perhaps best known for his collaboration within The Violet Quill.[2] He later went on to become senior editor of Ballantine Books.[3] He appeared in William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, and later directed several plays at the Jean Cocteau Theater, New York City.
He died of an AIDS-related infection in 1990. His partner, William Olander, had died of the same disease in 1989.[4]