10 Facts About Christian Cameron

Christian Cameron was educated and trained as both a historian and a former career officer in the US Navy.

Christian Cameron attended high school at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, and got an honors BA in Medieval History at the University of Rochester.

Christian Cameron left the US military in 2000 as a lieutenant commander.

Christian and Kenneth Cameron proposed their first novel while Christian was still in the Navy.

In 2002, Christian Cameron wrote his first solo novel, Washington and Caesar, which was published by HarperCollins in the UK and Random House in the US.

Also in 2002, Christian Cameron moved to Canada and married his wife, Sarah.

The Tyrant series was born in the classrooms of the Classics Department of the University of Toronto, where Christian Cameron decided to write a series of historical novels in 2003.

From 2003 to the present, Christian Cameron has written six Tyrant novels: Tyrant, Storm of Arrows, Funeral Games, King of the Bosporus, Destroyer of Cities, and Force of Kings.

Christian Cameron produced a single-volume fictional biography of Alexander entitled God of War which ties into the Tyrant series.

Christian Cameron's series covers the Persian Wars from the first-person point of view of a historical figure, Arimnestos of Plataea.