Christopher Coe

Christopher Coe
Born 1953 (1953)
Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, United States
Died September 6, 1994 (aged 41)
Manhattan, New York, United States
Cause of death AIDS
Alma mater Columbia University
Occupation Novelist

Christopher Coe (1953 – September 6, 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 September 6, 1994 at his home in Manhattan.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 William Lane Clark (1993). Contemporary Gay American Novelists. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313280191.
  2. ↑ "Christopher Coe, 41; Wrote Gay Novels". The New York Times. September 8, 1994.


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