[2][3][4] Cameron was born and raised in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey.
[6] In 1983, he published his first short story (Memorial Day) in The New Yorker; he then continued to contribute to the magazine in the following years.
His second novel, The Weekend,[8] was edited in 1994 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and adapted as the Brian Skeet film of the same name released in November 2000.
[13] In addition to his work as a writer, he has taught at Columbia, Yale and Sarah Lawrence College.
[15][16] Cameron was influenced by authors such as Rose Macaulay, Barbara Pym and Margaret Drabble,[17] borrowing their aptitude for probing individual lives.