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Christopher Cox has been named editor of Harper's Magazine. He assumes the role Nov. 1, becoming the fifteenth editor in that publication’s history.
Cox succeeds Ellen Rosenbush, who had served as Harper's editor since she replaced Roger Hodge in 2010. Rosenbush, the first woman to hold that title at the publication in its 165-year history, has been with Harper's since 1989 and will continue contributing for the magazine in the role of editor-at-large.
Cox joined Harper’s since 2010, first filling the role of senior editor before being promoted to deputy editor in 2013. Besides editing feature articles, he has also overseen the publication’s fiction and reviews section.
“Chris has brought in some of the most exciting work we’ve published,” said Harper’s publisher John. R. MacArthur in a statement. “His editorial wisdom enhances the writing in our pages and guides the work of the younger staff members.”
Cox, who originally hails from Atlanta, Georgia, was previously senior editor at The Paris Review, a role he held since 2005. He studied literature at Harvard before earning a master’s degree in history from the University of Cambridge.
“I am honored to be given the opportunity to run a magazine that I have long revered,” Cox said in a statement. “Harper’s has consistently published the most vital and innovative writing out there—a tradition that’s been as strong under Ellen’s leadership as it has for the 160 years before that. I look forward to continuing that tradition, and to finding new ways to bring our peerless mix of reportage, essays, poetry, and fiction to readers everywhere.”
Founded in 1850, Harper’s is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the country.
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