Books By Claire Cameron - Author

CLAIRE CAMERON's 2017 novel, The Last Neanderthal, was a national bestsller and a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. It sold in eleven territories. Her 2014 novel, The Bear, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, sold in ten territories, and was a #1 national bestseller. It won the Northern Lit Award from the Ontario Library Service, which her first novel, The Line Painter, also won. Her memoir, How to Survive a Bear Attack, was published in March 2025. Claire has led canoe trips in Algonquin Park and worked as an instructor for Outward Bound, teaching mountaineering, climbing, and whitewater rafting in Oregon and beyond. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and she is a monthly contributor to The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.