Chris Coffman has written on many subjects for decades. His second novel A Prince Among Men was published in 2022. In addition to his novels, short stories and articles Chris worked for decades in Europe, the UK, the United States, Latin America, Asia and Australia as an expatriate American investment banker and investor before founding a highly-awarded wine company in Australia. A Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum Laude graduate of the University of Southern California, he attended Columbia University before beginning his financial career at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, now merged into J.P. Morgan.
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Topics Interested In
Classics, Literature, History, Science, Religion
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Current Project
Currently working on Substack articles, but planning to write at least one more novel.
Publishing History
2026
I'm going to write Part Two of the Antigone essay, focusing this time on King Creon and the polis, ie the political order.
The average person (ie a well educated urban reader of the New York Times) would be shocked by what politics meant to the Athenians, who invented the very idea of …
An essay about the Greek tragedy Antigone, the OG heroine of conscience against patriarchy
This famous play has become a powerful political brand partly because readers lack important context for the warning Sophocles intended by writing this play. We live in an age where …
Antigone, Homicidal Empathy and the Collapse of Politics
TL; DR it's kind of amazing how "nothing is true" is a valid lens for Classical scholarship as well as today's news
I learned so much while researching this piece. The truth is much more surprising and strange than the pre-packaged "brands" to which our assumed knowledge about almost everything has been …
Towards a New Understanding of Being
Rebuilding meaning based on a truth we all have experienced