Christopher Coe

{{Infobox writer

| name = Christopher Coe

| image = Christopher Coe Headshot, 1987.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|41|1994|09|06|noage=1}}

| birth_place = Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and given age|1994|09|06|41}}

| death_place = Manhattan, New York, U.S.

| occupation = Novelist

| education = Columbia University

}}

Christopher Coe ({{birth based on age as of date|41|1994|09|06|noage=1|slash=y}}{{snd}}September 6, 1994) was an American novelist.

Life

Coe was born in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, and raised in Portland, Oregon. As an adult he lived in both New York City and Paris. Educated at Columbia University, he was a classmate of Amy Hempel, David Leavitt and Anderson Ferrell.{{cite book|first=William Lane|last=Clark|year=1993|chapter=Christopher Coe|editor-first= Emmanuel S.|editor-last=Nelson|title=Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook|location=Westport, Connecticut|publisher=Greenwood Press|pages=71{{ndash}}76|isbn=0-313-28019-3|url=https://archive.org/details/contemporarygaya00inli|url-access=registration}}

His first novel, I Look Divine, was published in 1987; his second, Such Times, was published in 1993. 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/08/obituaries/christopher-coe-41-wrote-gay-novels.html |title=Christopher Coe, 41; Wrote Gay Novels |work=The New York Times |date=September 8, 1994 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907075552/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/08/obituaries/christopher-coe-41-wrote-gay-novels.html |archive-date=September 7, 2012}}