Peter Cameron (b. 1959) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, he moved to New York City after graduating college in 1982. Cameron began publishing stories in the" New Yorker" one year later. His numerous award-winning stories for that magazine led to the publication of his first book, "One Way or Another "(1986), which received a special citation for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a First Book of Fiction. He has since focused on writing novels, including "Leap Year "(1990) and "The City of Your Final Destination "(2002), which was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Cameron lives in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.