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 .