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Ana Marie Cox

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Ana Marie Cox (b. 1972) is an American author and blogger, who was the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette, and widely considered synonymous with the title. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1994. On January 5, 2006, she officially announced her retirement as the blog's editor and her imminent transition to "Wonkette Emerita." Her novel Dog Days, ISBN 1594489017, a satire of Washington D.C. for which she was reportedly paid $250,000, was published on January 6, 2006. The book is widely considered to be a bust, especially for such a highly-touted first novel. As of March 2006, it had sold only 5,000 copies, according to Nielsen book sales tracking figures.[citation needed] On Thursday, July 27, 2006 she was named the Washington editor of Time.com.

Cox is the former executive editor of Suck.com, where she wrote under the pen name "Ann O'Tate." She 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. Under her tenure, Wonkette, published by weblog group Gawker Media since October 2003, was an often racy journal of Capitol Hill gossip—she had an infamous predilection for the word "assfucking"—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.-OH), who accepted money from a Bush administration official and others in exchange for sexual favors.[citation needed]