Given the question: Facts: - period: 1996 to present - caption: casper in 2003 . - name: claudia casper - nationality: canadian - image: claudia_casper . jpg - birth place: toronto , ontario , canada - occupation: novelist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of claudia casper .
The answer is:
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 .