Christian Cameron

Christian G. Cameron
June 2009
Born	August 16, 1962 (1962-08-16) (age 49) Pittsburgh, PA
Pen name	Gordon Kent
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1996–Present
Genres	Historical Fiction
Influences Patrick O'Brian, Glen Cook, Alexandre Dumas, père, J.R.R. Tolkien, Homer, Dorothy Dunnett, Roger Zelazny, Xenophon, Heraclitus, Eric Rücker Eddison
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Christian Gordon Cameron (born August 16, 1962) is a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an historian and a former career officer in the US Navy. His best-known work is the ongoing historical fiction series Tyrant,^[1] which by 2009 had sold over 100,000 copies.

Biography

Christian Cameron was born in the US, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1962 and grew up in Rochester, NY, and Iowa City, Iowa, as well as Rockport, Massachusetts. He attended high school at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, NY, and got an honors BA in Medieval History at the University of Rochester. After University, Cameron joined the United States Navy as an ensign, serving in VS 31 as an air intelligence officer and gaining his air observer wings before going to spend the rest of his military career as a humint officer, first with NCIS and later with DHS in Washington, DC. Cameron left the US military in 2000 as a lieutenant commander. While still serving in the Navy, Cameron proposed his first novel with his father (Kenneth Cameron, American novelist and playwright) to HarperCollins UK, which was published in 1996 as Night Trap in the UK and Rules of Engagement in the United States. In 2002, Cameron wrote his first solo novel, Washington and Caesar, published by HarperCollins in the UK and Random House in the US. Also in 2002, Cameron moved to Canada and married his wife, Sarah. They have one child, Beatrice.

Alan Craik Series

The Alan Craik series of espionage thrillers was conceived on a camping trip in the Adirondacks in 1994-5 and the events of the first book are very loosely based on the activities of John Anthony Walker and his son, father and son spies working for the Soviet Union against the United States Navy. Christian Cameron envisioned the books as a modern-day Hornblower series, depicting the life of a modern naval officer from his earliest career until his retirement. Over the course of eight novels, Alan Craik changes from a patriotic, enthusiastic and driven young man to a cynical and ambitious middle-aged man who resigns as a Captain to protest the use of intelligence to justify bad political decisions.

Tyrant Series

The Tyrant series was born in the classrooms of the Classics Department of the University of Toronto, where Cameron decided to write a series of historical novels in 2003. From 2003 to the present, Cameron has written three Tyrant novels: Tyrant (2008),^[2] Storm of Arrows (2009) and Funeral Games (2010). Three more Tyrant novels are in the works: King of the Bosporus (2011), Besieger of Cities (2012) and Force of Kings (2013). The Tyrant series is set in the time of Alexander the Great and concerns the history of the Euxine area and the inter-relations between the Greeks and Scythians.

Long War Series

The Long War series is Cameron's second historical series, also published by Orion in the UK. Cameron intends to write a series that covers the whole of the Persian Wars from a first-person point of view, while deliberately playing with some of the reader's perceptions of both history and the way that 'adventure' or 'boy's own' genre fiction is written. The first book, Killer of Men, named after Achilles, the man-killer of the Iliad, is due out in August 2010.

Bibliography

As Gordon Kent Alan Craik series Novels Night Trap Peacemaker Top Hook Hostile Contact Damage Control The Spoils of War The Falconer's Tale (2007) As Christian Cameron Washington and Caesar Tyrant Series Novels Tyrant Storm of Arrows Funeral Games King of the Bosporus (forthcoming Feb 2011) Long War Series Novels Killer of Men Marathon (forthcoming Aug 2011) References ^ "A brainy Hellenistic bromance". The Globe and Mail. March 10, 2010. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/article1496033.ece. Retrieved March 12, 2011.  ^ Foex, B. A (2008). "Back to the future: emergency departments and ancient Greek warfare". BMJ 337 (dec15 1): a2761-a2761. doi:10.1136/bmj.a2761.  edit External links Official website Author's American Revolution period reenacting group NFP Historical organization Persondata Name Cameron, Christian (real name) Alternative names Kent, Gordon Short description Canadian historical fiction author Date of birth August 16, 1962 Place of birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Date of death Place of death