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Carolyn Hax (born December 5, 1966, Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a writer and columnist for the Washington Post and the author of the advice column Carolyn Hax (formerly titled Tell Me About It). The column is geared toward people under the age of 30, but its readers are not limited to a specific age group. Since its founding in 1997, the column has gained a large audience. New 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 Post's most popular features; and selections from the transcripts of these chats are published as columns Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Carolyn Hax grew up in Trumbull, Connecticut, as the youngest of four daughters of a corporate planner and a secretary. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University (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. Her essay "Peace and Carrots," which describes how she is too busy to care about the so-called "Mommy Wars", was included in the 2006 anthology Mommy Wars by her Washington Post colleague Leslie Morgan Steiner.

Hax's second husband, Kenny Ackerman, is a New Haven, Connecticut, educator whom she has known since childhood. They are the parents of three boys: twins Jonas and Percy and a younger boy, Gus. The Hax-Ackerman family recently moved to the Washington, D.C., area.

The cartoons that accompany Hax's columns are drawn by her ex-husband, Nick Galifianakis.

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