Christopher Coe

Christopher Coe (November 27, 1953 – 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 student of Gordon Lish and a classmate of Amy Hempel, David Leavitt and Anderson Ferrell.

His first novel, I Look Divine, was published in 1987; his second, Such Times, was published in 1993. In the fall of 2025, Such Times was edited by Will Meyer and reissued by Archway Editions with previously unpublished photographs and a new introduction by Anderson Ferrell.

Coe died of AIDS on September 6, 1994, at his home in Manhattan.