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. 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.