Kings Of The Road
For fans of The Perfect Mile and Born to Run, a riveting, three-pronged narrative about the golden era of running in America —the 1970s— as seen through running greats, Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar. SHOP
The Water Wars
Lost in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, two teenagers race against time to rescue their friend from the clutches of a shadowy conspiracy that controls access to a resource more precious than gold. SHOP
Double Billing
A clever and sobering expose of the legal profession from the perspective of the lowest lawyer on the totem pole. Harvard Law School may have taught Cameron Stracher to think as a lawyer, but it was his experience as an associate that taught him to behave — or misbehave — as one. SHOP
Dinner with Dad
A four-course, five-star celebration of family life, and the memoir of the year Cameron Stracher spent cooking dinner with, and for, his wife and two picky children. Hilarious and heartbreaking, and a delicious treat for overworked parents everywhere. Dinner with Dad was optioned for television by 3Arts Entertainment. SHOP
The Laws of Return
This highly acclaimed first novel (starred review in Publisher’s Weekly) tells the story of assimilated Jew, Colin Stone, and his peripatetic wanderings in a world “cast loose from spiritual moorings,” until his confrontation with an unrepentant bigot leads him to a truth that the laws of science and society cannot explain. SHOP
The Curve
The students at Manhattan Law School, a decrepit institution on the edge of the toxic Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, are geographically-challenged and mad as hell – in debt up to their eyeballs and fighting over the few legal jobs left for those who are far outside the Ivy League. Featuring a colorful cast of eccentrics and law school misfits, “The Curve is a highly entertaining and deeply ironic satire of the current state of legal education, and reads like a cross of Dangerous Minds and The Paper Chase.” — Radar Online. The Curve was sold for development to NBC. SHOP
Cameron Stracher has been writing creatively since elementary school. His first play was produced while he was an undergraduate at Amherst College, where he majored in Philosophy and took classes with novelist Alan Lelchuk and poet Susan Snively. After college, he wrote his first (unpublished) novel while working in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Following that, he enrolled at Harvard Law School, where he also took a writing workshop from Mary Robison at Harvard College. After earning his J.D. degree, he spent another year writing in Woods Hole before getting a real job at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., where he lasted for one year before fleeing for the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He spent four years in Iowa City, studying under Frank Conroy, James Salter, Marilynne Robinson, Meg Wolitzer, and Deborah Eisenberg. After graduation, he moved to New York City with his wife where he resumed his legal career and began writing his first novel in the wee hours of the morning.
He won a fiction fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1994, and his novel, The Laws of Return, was published by William Morrow in 1996.
His non-fiction account of his life as a law firm associate, Double Billing: A Young Lawyer’s Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and a Swivel Chair, was also published by Morrow in 1998. In 2001, he began teaching at New York Law School, and eventually became the Publisher of the Law Review and the Co-Director of the school’s Program in Law & Journalism. His second book of non-fiction, Dinner with Dad: How I Found My Way Back to the Family Table, was published by Random House in 2007, and optioned for television by 3Arts Entertainment. In 2010 Cameron left New York Law School to spend more time writing and with his family, while continuing his legal practice. In 2011, Sourcebooks published his first YA novel, the dystopian thriller The Water Wars, and in 2013 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published his first full-length work of journalism, Kings of the Road: How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers and Alberto Salazar Made Running Go Boom. His latest book, The Curve, co-written with Jeremy Blachman, is a humorous satire of higher education, and is being developed for television by NBC.
In addition to his books, Cameron has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. A selected list of his publications can be found here.