Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. – Jonathan Coe
Coe
– born this day in 1959 – is an English novelist and writer who has spent his writing career focusing on novels about
politics. But while he has had an
underlying preoccupation with political issues, he
often expresses it comically in the form of satire. He is best known for two books also made into
movies - What
a Carve Up! (or
The Winshaw Legacy) and The Rotters' Club.
His nonfiction book Humphrey Bogart: Take It And Like It
is one of the best written on the late actor and one of the first pieces by him
that I discovered, since I’ve always enjoyed Bogart and the interesting life
that he led.
Jonathan Coe
Besides his literature, Coe has had a burgeoning career in music, playing keyboards in the band The Peer Group and writing a
number of songs for both that band and others. He’s collaborated with many other
writers on a wide range of songs and continues to toy with the idea of “just
focusing on music, which is why I can’t decide what I really want to be”
although writing continues to lead the way.
“I
have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short
stories. They just seem to turn into
novels.”
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