Veteran radio host, television and film writer and producer, advertising copywriter, columnist, author and college prof.
Before Hoagie Cox began writing books full time, he wrote advertising at three of the West Coast’s most creative agencies: Chiat-Day, Keye-Donna-Pearlstein and Hal Riney & Partners. Before that career, he worked in radio and television, where at the age of thirteen he began writing news and commercial copy.
"He left advertising in 1998 to take two MFA programs at Pacific University in Oregon. Three books are just now being released to publishers.
"The first, entitled Miracle Max, concerns miracles and quantum physics. Max is a writer who debunks miracles for “Skeptic Magazine” and confronts an immoral and sadistically destructive villain and a true miracle worker who inadvertently turns Los Angeles into a tropical paradise.
"The second, a memoir written during Pacific's Nonfiction MFA program, interprets the personal and societal destruction of Post Traumatic Stress. It is titled, “Until I came back, I didn’t know I was gone.”
"The third is Noised in the Barn and Other Stories. Metaphysical short stories for soon-to-be-enlightened children,” a collection of stories developed as his children grew.
"Forth is The Tang of Plum Wine / Ue O Muite Aruk” is set 20 years after Japan surrendered to the allies. It is a coming-of-age story about Japan, the young American Disk Jockey whose Rock ‘n’ Roll show intended for GIs was a hit to Japanese youth. It includes erotic romance, the discovery of communist POW camp in Kamchatka, the workings of a music piracy yakuza and the burgeoning power of the world’s youth.
"The fifth book is an autobiography of Ryszard Kapuscinski, the Polish Hero Journalist whose PTSD forced him into the most treacherous reporting imaginable.
"Three other books are currently being researched: The Loves of Rousseau, the Clipper Ships, and a sequel to Tang of Plum Wine."
