How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir was published by Knopf Canada in March 2025 in Canada and the U.S. It is a national best seller, one of Spotify’s Best of the Year so far, and the winner of the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction.
Claire Cameron’s most recent novel, The Last Neanderthal, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It sold in eleven territories. Her second 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.
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.
Find Claire at the links below.
Website: https://www.claire-cameron.com/
Instagram: @ clairecameron123
You can find Claire’s book, How to Survive a Bear Attach, here: https://www.claire-cameron.com/how-to-survive-a-bear-attack
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