Claire Cameron(born March 1973) is a Canadian novelist and journalist.[1]
Claire Cameron | |
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 Cameron at theEden Mills Writers' Festivalin 2017 | |
| Born | March 1973 (age 51) Toronto,Ontario,Canada |
| Occupation | Novelist, journalist |
| Language | English |
| Relatives | Angus Cameron(father) |
| Website | |
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Personal life
editHer fatherAngus Cameronwas a prominent academic at theUniversity of Torontowho founded theDictionary of Old English.[2]Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Cameron attendedNorthern Secondary School (Toronto)andQueen's Universityfor History and Culture (inKingston, Ontario). Cameron was a wilderness instructor forOutward Bound[3]and she worked for The Taylor Statten Camps[4]inAlgonquin Park.Later she interned forSierra Club BooksinSan Franciscoand co-founded the consulting company Shift Learning[5]inLondon, England.She now resides in Toronto with her husband and two children.[6]
Writing
editNovels
editCameron's first novelThe Line Painter,was published in 2007 byHarperCollinsCanada.[7]It won the 2008 Northern Lit Award from theOntario Library Service[8]and was nominated for a 2008Arthur EllisCrime Writing Award for best first novel.[9] Cameron has said in regards to beginning her writing career and specificallyLine Painter,"I almost made an album. I had one decent song for the album. It was about a guy who paints lines on the highway for a job. I wrote that song because it looked to me like painting lines was a simpler way to go about making a living. I nearly finished my album. I was recording my painting lines song, but I kept messing it up (because I can't sing or play). I got so frustrated, I ended up smashing my guitar around. This is the only rock star-ish thing I've ever done. After the smashing, all I had left was a half decent idea about painting lines. I'm better at typing than I am at guitar, so I sat down and started to write."[6]
Cameron's second novel,The Bear,was published in February 2014 byLittle Brown & Companyin the United States,Random Housein Canada, andHarvill Secker/Vintage in the United Kingdom & Commonwealth.[10]Cameron was leading a trip through Algonquin Park a year after thebear attack on Lake Opeongoof October 11, 1991, which ended in the death of two adults. The stories she heard continued to haunt her years later and eventually became the basis forThe Bear.[11]InThe Bear,Cameron re-imagines the events of October 1991 by adding two small children into the mix. It is a bestseller in Canada[12]and was recently long listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize).[13]
Cameron's third novel "The Last Neanderthal" was published (April 25, 2017) by Little Brown & Co in the U.S., Penguin Random House in Canada, and SEM Libri in Italian, and forthcoming from Cargo/De Bezige Bij in Dutch and Forlaget Bazar in Danish.[14]She was profiled[15]inThe New York Times.
Her memoirHow to Survive a Bear Attackwill be published by Knopf Canada in March 2025.[16]
Other Writing
editCameron is a monthly contributor toThe Globe and Mail.[17]She also writes reviews, interviews, and articles forThe New Yorker,[18]Outside Magazine,[19]The Millions,[20]The Rumpus,[21]The Globe and Mail,[22]andThe Los Angeles Review of Books.[23]
Cameron has also written a collection of last words fromTexasinmates' final statements and an Op-Ed about tree planting forThe New York Times.[24][25]
Her short story,Jude the Brave,[26]won a silver medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards.[27]
Bibliography
edit- The Line Painter(2007)ISBN9780002008358
- The Bear(2014)ISBN9780385679022
- The Last Neanderthal(2017)ISBN9780316314480
- How to Survive a Bear Attack(2025)ISBN 9781039056350
References
edit- ^"Director details".Retrieved7 October2013.
- ^Dictionary of Old English[full citation needed]
- ^Outward Bound[full citation needed]
- ^Taylor Statten Camps[full citation needed]
- ^Shift Learning
- ^abAuthor Website
- ^"The Line Painter".Archived fromthe originalon 2013-09-21.Retrieved2013-09-20.
- ^Northern Lit Awards
- ^"Arthur Ellis Awards".Archived fromthe originalon 2013-09-21.Retrieved2013-09-20.
- ^The Bear: Bukowski Agency
- ^The Bear
- ^"Weekend update: Bestseller lists, interviews and reviews of the Bear | Claire Cameron".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-03-19.Retrieved2014-03-19.
- ^"BAILEYS Women's Prize for Fiction » Longlist 2014".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-03-13.Retrieved2014-03-19.
- ^"The Last Neanderthal".
- ^Alter, Alexandra (May 25, 2017)."Neanderthals: They're Just Like Us".The New York Times.RetrievedOctober 25,2024.
- ^"How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron | Penguin Random House Canada".www.penguinrandomhouse.ca.Retrieved2024-10-25.
- ^"Search Results".The Globe and Mail.Retrieved2024-10-25.
- ^Cameron, Claire (2021-04-05).""Bear" Is About Much More Than Having Sex with a Bear ".The New Yorker.ISSN0028-792X.Retrieved2024-10-25.
- ^Cameron, Claire (2024-05-19)."How a Skin Cancer Diagnosis Changed My Relationship with the Outdoors".Outside Online.Retrieved2024-10-25.
- ^Claire Cameron The Millions
- ^Claire Cameron The Rumpus
- ^"The mysteries of a changing Brooklyn".The Globe and Mail.2013-07-19.Archivedfrom the original on 2016-03-04.
- ^Claire Cameron Los Angeles Review of Books
- ^"Opinion | Last Words (Published 2009)".The New York Times.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-06-17.
- ^"Claire Cameron - The New York Times".www.nytimes.com.Retrieved2024-10-25.
- ^"Jude the Brave | The Walrus".2023-12-12.Retrieved2024-10-25.
- ^"The Walrus Wins Big at the National Magazine Awards 2024 | The Walrus".2024-06-08.Retrieved2024-10-25.