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Peter Cameron (novelist)

Overview

Peter Cameron (born 1959) is an American novelist and Hamilton College alumnus, author of works including Andorra (1997), The City of Your Final Destination (2002), and Coral Glynn (2012). He would have attended Hamilton approximately 1977–1981. The corpus matches attributed to him in the manifest present a date plausibility problem: the bulk of grep hits under “Peter Cameron” in the corpus come from Hamilton Life issues starting in 1941 and Spectator issues from 1948, which precede his birth year by more than a decade.

Relevance to Research

The April 23, 1941 Hamilton Life issue contains a mention of “Peter Cameron” in the context of faculty children participating in a knitting drive for soldiers — identified as one of several faculty children. This is clearly not the novelist Peter Cameron (born 1959), but rather a child of a Hamilton faculty member in the early 1940s. The Spectator files from 1979–1980 — closer to the novelist’s actual era — do not yield a clear match in the files examined. No confirmed appearance of the novelist Peter Cameron was found in the corpus files reviewed. The corpus “Peter Cameron” matches in earlier decades most likely represent a different individual, possibly the son of a Hamilton faculty member.

Notes

Role: Hamilton College alumnus (Class of approximately 1981); American novelist Key events: - Born 1959 - Would have attended Hamilton College approximately 1977–1981 - Author of Andorra (1997), The City of Your Final Destination (2002), Coral Glynn (2012), and other novels - The April 23, 1941 corpus hit (“Peter Cameron, Barbara and Stephen Graves, Wendell Patton…”) refers to a faculty child, not the novelist - No confirmed appearance found in the 1979–1980 Spectator files examined - Corpus attribution requires caution: the name “Peter Cameron” appears to represent multiple different individuals across the corpus time span