Justin D. Fox

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| name = Justin Fox

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1967|05|04}}

| birth_place = Cape Town

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| nationality = South African

| citizenship = South Africa

| education = SACS

| alma_mater = University of Cape Town
Oxford University

| occupation = author, photojournalist, lecturer and editor

| organization = former editor, Getaway travel magazine

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| notable_works = The Cape Raider
Whoever Fears the Sea
The Marginal Safari
Secret Cape Town
The Impossible Five

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Justin D. Fox (born 4 May 1967) is a South African author, photojournalist, lecturer and editor living in Cape Town, South Africa. He was editor of Getaway travel magazine{{Cite web | url=http://www.getaway.co.za/author/justin-fox/ |title = Justin Fox, Author at Getaway Magazine}} until 2020, and has freelanced internationally for many newspapers and magazines. Educated at SACS junior and high schools, he graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BA in English in 1990. He was elected as a Rhodes Scholar in 1991 and graduated with a masters and a doctorate in English from Oxford University.{{Cite web | url=http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/interviews/how-alumnus-justin-fox-tracked-down-africas-impossible-five-mammals | title=How alumnus Justin Fox tracked down Africa's 'Impossible Five' mammals | Oxford Today | access-date=2018-07-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725153257/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/interviews/how-alumnus-justin-fox-tracked-down-africas-impossible-five-mammals | archive-date=2018-07-25 | url-status=dead }} He is the author of more than a dozen books, ranging from travel[http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2012/01/19/isaac-ndlovu-reviews-the-marginal-safari-by-justin-fox/ Isaac Ndlovu Reviews The Marginal Safari by Justin Fox] and children's literature{{Cite web | url=http://pensouthafrica.co.za/my-great-expedition-by-justin-fox/ |title = My Great Expedition by Justin Fox | PEN South Africa}} to photography{{Cite web | url=http://pensouthafrica.co.za/africa-lens-by-justin-fox/ | title=Africa Lens by Justin Fox | PEN South Africa}} and fiction.{{Cite web | url=https://www.litnet.co.za/whoever-fears-the-sea-by-justin-fox/ |title = Whoever fears the sea by Justin Fox| date=30 November 2001 }}

Fox's book The Impossible Five named South Africa's most elusive animals, including the Cape mountain leopard, the aardvark, the ground pangolin, the white lion, and the riverine rabbit.{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Justin |authorlink=Justin D. Fox |title=The Impossible Five – One Man's Search for South Africa's Most Elusive Animals |date=2015 |publisher=Tafelberg |location=Cape Town |isbn=978-0-624-07196-9}} They are almost impossible to track in the wild, and spotting one in the wild is considered a major accomplishment.