Background
Coe was born in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania and raised in Portland, Oregon.
Coe was born in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania and raised in Portland, Oregon.
As an adult he lived in both New York City and Paris. His first novel, I Look Divine, published in 1987, his second, Such Times, in 1993. As well as a writer, Coe also worked as a photographer and cabaret singer.
Coe died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome on 6 September 1994 at his home in Manhattan.