John B. Cameron

John Cameron is an historian who writes about the American Civil War and 18th century France. Cameron’s nonfiction book, Tar Heels in Gray, was published in 2021. His first historical novel, The Roads of War, was published in 2022.

John Cameron grew up in the Sand Hills of North Carolina, where many generations of his Scottish-American ancestors lived. He spent every summer working in tobacco fields until he went away to college.

At Davidson College, he studied history but also learned to play bridge which nearly wrecked his college career. He then attended graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill, specializing in 18th century France and the Revolution. His research was centered on Marseilles and Provence, which is why he writes novels often set in that part of the world.

He has lived in many states and France, visited the Gobi desert, and circumnavigated the globe. He is now settled in Norfolk, Virginia, where he can look out on the Lafayette River as he writes. He is married and has several children and grandchildren.