Peter Cameron (novelist)
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| Born | November 29, 1959 Pompton Plains, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Education | English literature |
| Alma mater | Hamilton College |
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Peter Cameron (born November 29, 1959) is an American novelist and short-story writer.[1][2][3][4]
Cameron was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey. He graduated in English literature in 1982 from Hamilton College. Cameron lived in Pompton Plains, London, and, later, New York City.
In 1983 he published his first short story (Memorial Day) in The New Yorker, he went on to collaborate with the magazine in the following years.[5] His first book was a collection of short stories entitled One Way or Another, published by Harper (publisher) & Row in 1986. His debut novel Leap Year was published by Harper & Row in 1990. His second novel, The Weekend,[6] was edited in 1994 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, who also published Andorra in 1997,[7] and The City of Your Final Destination in 2002 (which in 2009 was adapted into The City of Your Final Destination).
Cameron was influenced by authors such as Rose Macaulay, Barbara Pym and Penelope Mortimer, borrowing their aptitude for probing individual lives. He uses complex narrative mechanisms, albeit with a clear and flowing prose, to frame realistic and at times merciless portraits of human relationships, in which memories of the past stand out as key thematic nodes.
List of works
Novels
- Leap Year (1990)
- The Weekend (1994)
- Andorra (1997)
- The City of Your Final Destination (2002)
- Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2007)
- Coral Glynn (2012)
Collections
- One Way or Another (1986)
- Far-flung (1991)
- The Half You Don't Know (1997)
References
- ↑ "Peter Cameron". The Saratoga Book Festival. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
- ↑ "Cameron, Peter". Treccani. Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved October 6, 2022.
- ↑ "Peter Cameron". Goodreads. Goodreads. Retrieved October 5, 2022.
- ↑ "Peter Cameron". MacDowell. MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop). Retrieved October 5, 2022.
- ↑ "Peter Cameron Latest Articles". The New Yorker. The New Yorker. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ↑ Dorris, Michael (July 28, 1994). "A Gripping Tale Suffused With Repressed Emotion, Loneliness". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
- ↑ Livesey, Margot (December 29, 1992). "The Past Is Another Country". The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
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