Editing Jonathan Coe (section)

==Personal life==
Coe married Janine McKeown in 1989, and they have two daughters born in 1997 and 2000.<ref name=Debretts2005/>

In 2009, Coe took part in [[Oxfam]]'s first annual book festival, "Bookfest". Along with [[William Sutcliffe]], Coe volunteered for the Oxfam Bloomsbury Bookshop in London on Thursday 9 July.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfam.org.uk/applications/blogs/books/?p=1664&|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608083239/http://www.oxfam.org.uk/applications/blogs/books/?p=1664&|url-status=dead|title=Oxfam books blog: Jonathan Coe and William Sutcliffe create window displays for the Oxfam Bloomsbury Bookshop|archive-date=8 June 2011}}</ref> Coe and Sutcliffe were each asked to choose a theme, and to find books from the stockroom to set up in the shop's window. Coe chose satire as the theme for his display. He chose books by or about [[Michael Moore]], [[Bill Hicks]], [[Peter Cook]] and [[Steve Bell (cartoonist)|Steve Bell]]. He also unearthed a script of [[Terry Gilliam]]’s film ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]''.

Coe donated a story to [[Oxfam]]'s "[[Ox-Tales]]" project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Coe's story was published in the ''Earth'' collection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/books/books_oxtales.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718005818/http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/books/books_oxtales.html|url-status=dead|title=Oxfam: Ox-Tales|archive-date=18 July 2011}}</ref>

He is a trustee of the charity Cleared Ground Demining, and in spring 2007 visited [[Guinea-Bissau]] to write an article about their operations there.<ref>{{cite news|last=Coe|first=Jonathan|title=Deadly Legacy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/aug/18/voluntarysector?INTCMP=SRCH|newspaper=The Guardian|date=18 August 2007}}</ref>

In a 2001 newspaper interview, Coe described himself as an [[atheism|atheist]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Sally|last= Vincent|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/feb/24/fiction.jonathancoe1 |title=A Bit of a Rotter|newspaper=The Guardian|date=24 February 2001|page= 36}}</ref>