Christopher Largen Writer

Christopher Jon Largen (June 18, 1969 – December 22, 2012) was a United States award-winning journalist, novelist, social satirist, public speaker and filmmaker, known for his iconoclastic writings on health and public policy, and his efforts to reduce child abuse. Largen's work is featured in hundreds of news outlets and literary journals, including: Village Voice, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Nashville Scene, The Hill, Lone Star Iconoclast, Creative Loafing, Fort Worth Weekly, LA Weekly, and a Washington Post syndicated column. He died of a heart attack in December 2012 at the age of 43.

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Birth date	June 18, 1969
Birth name	Christopher Jon Largen
Birth place	Texas , Fort Worth Texas , Tarrant County Texas , United States
Nationality	United States
Date of death	December 22, 2012
Place of death	Austin Texas , United States

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Career start	2001
Career end	2012
genre	Documentary film Non-fiction Satire Investigative journalism
influenced by	David Lynch Fyodor Dostoyevsky Hunter S. Thompson Ken Kesey Kurt Vonnegut Martin Scorsese Stanley Kubrick Oliver Stone Mark Twain Tom Wolfe Leo Tolstoy

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