Peter cameron author biography johnny

One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for Peter Cameron.

Peter Cameron was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey in 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.

Peter has also written a play, two marvelous collections of short stories, and in his spare time he publishes extremely elegant handmade books.

“Peter Cameron’s novel possesses all the intriguing and playful elements of a Borges fiction. The novel does uncover something extraordinary it is a tender story -- told with huge doses of wit and humour -- about both destinations and destiny, about the strange journey of life and the shifting concept of home.”.

And the expected story ensued: Johnny's parents ask the kindergarten teacher how he is doing, and she tells them “Yes, he understands sets, but he has.

Peter Cameron is one of America's greatest writers, the living stylist I most revere." — Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You and Cleanness "I don't think I've ever read a book by an American or by a living person that's as exquisitely rendered.