Christopher Coe
Christopher Coe | |
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| Born | November 27, 1953 |
| Died | (aged 41) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | Columbia University |
Christopher Coe (November 27, 1953 – September 6, 1994)[1] was an American novelist.
Life
[edit]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 student of Gordon Lish[2] and a classmate of Amy Hempel, David Leavitt and Anderson Ferrell.[3]
His first novel, I Look Divine, was published in 1987; his second, Such Times, was published in 1993.[4] His short stories were published in Harper's magazine and Story. As well as a writer, Coe also worked as a photographer and cabaret singer.
In January 1983, while in Paris, he had a romantic relationship with the composer Claude Vivier. Such Times is partly an account of this, fictionalized as the protagonist Timothy's relationship with a composer named “Claude,” but with departures from the actual relationship.[5] In the fall of 2025, Such Times was edited by Will Meyer and reissued by Archway Editions with previously unpublished photographs and a new introduction by Anderson Ferrell.[6]
Coe died of AIDS on September 6, 1994, at his home in Manhattan.[4]
External links
[edit]Christopher Coe at Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/PMY7-2JC
I Look Divine at the Internet Archive (read for free) https://archive.org/details/ilookdivine00coec
Such Times at the Internet Archive (read for free) https://archive.org/details/suchtimes00coec
References
[edit]- ^ Mack, S. Thomas (2023). "Christopher Coe | Research Starters | EBSCO Research". EBSCO. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
- ^ Lish, Gordon (2018). Winters, David; Lucarelli, Jason (eds.). Conversations with Gordon Lish. Literary conversations series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4968-1626-9.
- ^ Clark, William Lane (1993). "Christopher Coe". In Nelson, Emmanuel S. (ed.). Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 71–76. ISBN 0-313-28019-3.
- ^ a b "Christopher Coe, 41; Wrote Gay Novels". The New York Times. September 8, 1994.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Gilmore, Bob (June 1, 2014). Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life (1 ed.). Boydell and Brewer Limited. pp. 215–216. doi:10.1017/9781580468411. ISBN 978-1-58046-841-1.
- ^ Coe, Christopher (2025). Such Times. Brooklyn: Archway Editions. ISBN 978-1-64823-091-2.
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