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Claudia Casper is a Canadian writer. She is best known for her bestselling novel ''The Reconstruction'', about a woman who constructs a life-sized model of the hominid Lucy for a museum diorama while trying to recreate herself. ==Early life== Claudia Casper was born in Toronto, Ontario. She was her parents’ only child, but she now has ten half-siblings. She says that her “siblings ... who often spoke no common language and three parents who couldn’t be further apart on the introversion/extroversion continuum,” helped her develop “an early ability to bridge realities.” As a result of her diverse family, she learned German, Spanish, French and some Hebrew.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Claudia Casper About Page )〕 Casper attended Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, but then transferred to SEED Alternative School, one of Toronto’s first free schools, which she describes as seeming like “a slightly scary hotbed of creativity, drugs and sex,” where she learned at her own pace and chose her own curriculum.〔 Her first job in the literary world was at the age of 16, dusting books at Coles bookstore near Yonge and Bloor in Toronto. Casper used the earnings from this job to go on a solo bike trip in Germany on a three-speed bicycle. (Cycling continues to be a large part of her life. In 2010 she participated in the first Gran Fondo ride from Vancouver to Whistler, British Columbia.) While completing her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toronto, where she studied under Northrop Frye, Casper worked in the circulation department at ''The Globe and Mail''.〔 After graduation, she applied for a copy-editing job with a Toronto publisher but failed their in-house test, so she moved to Vancouver and “crashed on the warehouse floor” of a small publisher, Pulp Press (now Arsenal Pulp Press). Stephen Osborne, co-founder of Pulp Press and founder of ''Geist'' magazine, taught Casper to typeset, and for the next ten years she made a living freelance typesetting and being a foster parent for at-risk teenagers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claudia Casper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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