Christopher Coe

Christopher Coe (1953 - 6 September 1994) was an American novelist.[1]

Coe was born in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania[1] and raised in Portland, Oregon.[1] As an adult he lived in both New York City and Paris.[1] Educated at Columbia University, he was a classmate of Amy Hempel, David Leavitt and Anderson Ferrell.[1]

His first novel, I Look Divine, published in 1987, his second, Such Times, in 1993.[1] As well as a writer, Coe also worked as a photographer and cabaret singer.

Coe died of AIDS on 6 September 1994 at his home in Manhattan.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 William Lane Clark, Contemporary Gay American Novelists. Greenwood Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0313280191.
  2. ↑ "Christopher Coe, 41; Wrote Gay Novels". The New York Times, September 8, 1994.