James Fox (born 19 November 1945) is a British journalist best known for his book, '' White Mischief,'' and for co-authoring ''Life,'' the best-selling memoir of Rolling Stones' guitarist

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Life and career

Fox was born in Washington, D.C., U.S. and worked as a journalist in Africa as well as reporting for London's ''

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''. His first book, ''White Mischief,'' is an account of the Happy Valley murder case in Kenya in 1941. He researched the book with

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in 1969 and it was later adapted into a

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in the 1980s. Fox also wrote ''The Langhorne Sisters'', also known as ''Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia''. He married the fashion designer

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in 2001. They have a son, James "Jimmy" Lux Fox. The couple separated in 2017.

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