Life and career
Cameron was born and raised in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey. [5] He graduated in English literature in 1982 from Hamilton College. Cameron lived in Pompton Plains, London, and, later, New York City. [6]
In 1983, he published his first short story (Memorial Day) in The New Yorker ; he then continued to contribute to the magazine in the following years. [7] His first book was a collection of short stories entitled One Way or Another, published by Harper & Row in 1986. His debut novel Leap Year was published by Harper & Row in 1990. His second novel, The Weekend, [8] was edited in 1994 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and adapted as the Brian Skeet film of the same name released in November 2000. [2] In 1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Cameron's next novel, Andorra. [9] They followed up with The City of Your Final Destination in 2002, [10] which in 2009 was adapted into a film of the same name [3] directed by James Ivory. In October 2007, Cameron's young adult novel Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You was published [11] [1] and in October 2012 it was adapted into a film of the same name. [4] In March 2012, he published Coral Glynn. [12] His last novel, What Happens at Night, was published by Catapult in August 2020. [13]
In addition to his work as a writer, he has taught at Columbia, Yale and Sarah Lawrence College. Between 1990 and 1998, he worked for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. [14] In 2010, he founded Wallflower Press, whose name had to change in January 2014 to Shrinking Violet Press due to a rights conflict with Columbia University. [15] [16]
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