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Peter Cameron was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey in 1959 and grew up there and in London, England. He spent two years attending the progressive American School in London, where he discovered the joys of reading, and began writing stories, poems, and plays. Cameron graduated from Hamilton College in New York State in 1982 with a B.A. in English Literature.
He sold his first short story to The New Yorker
in 1983, and published ten more stories in that magazine during the
next few years. This exposure facilitated the publication of his first
book, a collection of stories titled One Way or Another, published by Harper & Row in 1986. One Way or Another
was awarded a special citation by the PEN/Hemingway Award for First
Book of Fiction. In 1988 Cameron was hired by Adam Moss to write a
serial novel for the just-launched magazine 7 Days. This serial, which was written and published a chapter a week, became Leap Year,
a comic novel of life and love in New York City in the twilight of the
1980s. It was published in 1989 by Harper & Row, which also
published a second collection of stories, Far-flung, in 1991.
Beginning in 1990, Cameron stopped writing short fiction and turned his attention toward novels. His second novel, The Weekend, was published in 1994 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which also published a third novel, Andorra, in 1997. FSG published Cameron’s fourth novel, The City of Your Final Destination, in 2002, and his most recent novel, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, in 2007. His work has been translated into a dozen languages.
