Claire Cameron: How to Survive a Bear Attack
Claire Cameron: How to Survive a Bear Attack
Claire Cameron, the bestselling author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal, visits KPL to discuss her powerful debut memoir, How to Survive a Bear Attack.
At once a memoir, a meticulously researched investigation, and a meditation on the force of nature, Claire confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an equally rare and terrifying event—a predatory bear attack.
In conversation with Deborah Dundas, The Toronto Star's Opinions Editor.
CLAIRE CAMERON's first novel, The Line Painter, won the Northern Lit Award from the Ontario Library Service and was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Crime Writing Award for best first novel. Her second novel, The Bear, was a number one national bestseller, and was long-listed for the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her last novel, The Last Neanderthal, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Cameron’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, the Los Angeles Review of Books and Salon. She is a staff writer at The Millions. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.
