Carolyn Hax
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Carolyn Hax (born December 5, 1966 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a writer and columnist for the Washington Post and the author of the advice column Tell Me About It (which has since been retitled simply "Carolyn Hax"). The column is geared toward people under the age of 30, but its readers are not limited to any specific age group. Since its founding in 1997, the column has gained a large audience. New Tell Me About It columns are published Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday and are carried in more than 100 newspapers. A weekly Friday web chat on the paper's website with Hax is also one of the paper's most popular features, and selected transcripts from these chats are published as columns on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Carolyn Hax grew up in Trumbull, Connecticut as the daughter of a corporate planner and a secretary and as the youngest of four sisters. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1988.
Previously, Hax worked as associate editor and news editor at the Army Times and as a 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.
Hax's second husband, Kenny Ackerman, is a New Haven, Connecticut, educator whom she has known since childhood. They are the parents of twin boys, Jonas and Percy, and a younger boy, Gus.
Cartoons that accompany Hax's columns are drawn by her ex-husband, Nick Galifianakis.
