His first novel, The Decatur Road, won the Jones Fiction Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters in 1984.
The couple established two antique malls in the Dallas-Fort Worth area shortly after they wed.[6] They divorced in 2000.
His current wife, Isabelle Tokumaru, runs her paintings conservation practice in the third story, while he writes novels in the kitchen, where the food is close.
When the weather's nice, he takes his old motor sailer, "Yonder", on day sails and cruises down east.
"[8] In 2012, Coomer donated his papers—reflecting his works created between 1977 and 2011—to the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University.