Stephen Cox was born in 1966 and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. Cox, an avid film and television enthusiast and freelance writer, has contributed to many magazine and newspaper publications as well as been interviewed on more than a hundred talk and entertainment TV and Radio programs including CNN's Larry King Live, Fox News and A&E Biography to name a few. Cox was the only journalist granted an interview by television legend Johnny Carson during the year-long interim between the announcement of the Tonight Show host's retirement and his highly rated farewell show in 1992.