Christopher Largen (born June 18, 1969) is a U.S. award-winning journalist, novelist, social satirist, actor, 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...
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Christopher Largen (born June 18, 1969) is a U.S. award-winning journalist, novelist, social satirist, actor, 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.
Christopher Jon Largen was born at Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas to parents Robert and Karen Largen. Christopher's mother was only seventeen years old at the time of his birth, and both of them almost died during labor.
Family doctors later suggested that Largen's traumatic birth may have contributed to Largen's severe hyperactive behaviors, for which his parents treated him with marijuana from the ages of two until five years old, making him the...
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