Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer, born on 19 August 1961. His work is characterized by a serious engagement with political issues, often expressed comically in the form of satire. A prime example is his novel What a Carve Up! (1994), which reworks the plot of a 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. The novel is set against the backdrop of the "carve up" of the UK's resources during Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.

Coe was born in Birmingham and pursued his education at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Trinity College, Cambridge, before teaching at the University of Warwick.