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Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Born
Julia B. Cameron

(1948-03-04) March 4, 1948 (age 76)
Libertyville, Illinois, U.S.
EducationGeorgetown University
Fordham University
Occupations
  • Teacher
  • author
  • filmmaker
  • playwright
  • journalist
Known forThe Artist's Way
Spouses
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(m. 1976; div. 1977)​
ChildrenDomenica Cameron-Scorsese
Websitejuliacameronlive.com//

Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948[1]) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is best known for her book The Artist's Way (1992). She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays.

Biography

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Julia Cameron was born in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and raised Catholic. She was the second oldest of seven children.[2] She started college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University. She wrote for The Washington Post and then Rolling Stone.[3]

She met Martin Scorsese while on assignment for Oui Magazine.[2] They married in 1976 and divorced a year later in 1977. They have one daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, born in 1976. The marriage ended after Scorsese began seeing Liza Minnelli while the three of them were working on New York, New York.[2] Cameron and Scorsese collaborated on three films. Her memoir Floor Sample details her descent into alcoholism and drug addiction, which induced blackouts, paranoia and psychosis.[4] In 1978, reaching a point in her life when writing and drinking could no longer coexist,[5] Cameron stopped abusing drugs and alcohol, and began teaching creative unblocking, eventually publishing the book based on her work: The Artist's Way.[4] At first she sold Xeroxed copies of the book in a local bookstore before it was published by TarcherPerigee in 1992.[2] She contends that creativity is an authentic spiritual path.[3]

Cameron has taught filmmaking, creative unblocking, and writing. She has taught at The Smithsonian, Esalen, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, and the New York Open Center.[3] At Northwestern University, she was writer in residence for film.[3] In 2008 she taught a class at the New York Open Center, The Right to Write, named and modeled after one of her bestselling books, which reveals the importance of writing.[6]

Cameron has lived in Los Angeles,[7] Chicago,[7] New York City,[7] and Washington, D.C.[1] She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[2]

Works

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Nonfiction

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  • Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity (St. Martin's Press, 2024; ISBN 978-1-250-89758-9)
  • Write for Life: A Toolkit for Writers (Profile Books, 2023)
  • Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection (A Six-Week Artist's Way Program) (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
  • The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
  • It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond (Tarcher, 2016)
  • The Artist's Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children (Tarcher/Hay House, 2013)
  • The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough" (Tarcher/Hay House, 2011; ISBN 978-1-58542-897-7)
  • Faith and Will: Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives (Tarcher, 2010; ISBN 1585428019)
  • The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration (Tarcher, 2010)
  • The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Tarcher, 2009)
  • Prayers to the Great Creator: Prayers and Declarations for a Meaningful Life (Tarcher, 2008)
  • The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size (Tarcher, 2007; ISBN 1-58542-571-0)
  • Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance (Tarcher, 2006; ISBN 1585424633)
  • Floor Sample (Tarcher, 2006; ISBN 1-58542-494-3), a memoir
  • How to Avoid Making Art (2006; ISBN 1-58542-438-2), illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron
  • Letters to a Young Artist (Tarcher, 2005)
  • The Sound of Paper (Tarcher, 2004; Hardcover ISBN 1-58542-288-6)
  • Supplies: A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties (Tarcher, 2003; Revised & Updated edition ISBN 1-58542-212-6)
  • Walking in this World (Tarcher, 2003; Reprint edition ISBN 1-58542-261-4)
  • The Artist's Way, 10th Annv edition (Tarcher, 2002; ISBN 1-58542-146-4)
  • Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way (Tarcher, 2001; ISBN 1-58542-102-2)
  • God is Dog Spelled Backwards (Tarcher, 2000; ISBN 1-58542-062-X)
  • God is No Laughing Matter (Tarcher, 2000; ISBN 1-58542-065-4)
  • Supplies: A Pilot's Manual for Creative Flight (2000)
  • The Artist's Date Book (Tarcher, 1999; ISBN 0-87477-653-8), illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron Evans
  • Money Drunk Money Sober (Ballantine Wellspring, 1999; ISBN 0-345-43265-7)
  • The Writing Life (Sounds True, 1999; ISBN 1-56455-725-1)
  • Transitions (Tarcher, 1999; ISBN 0-87477-995-2)
  • The Artist's Way at Work (Pan, 1998; ISBN 0-330-37319-6)
  • Blessings (Tarcher, 1998; ISBN 0-87477-906-5)
  • The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (Tarcher, 1998; ISBN 1-58542-009-3)
  • Heart Steps (Tarcher, 1997; ISBN 0-87477-899-9)
  • The Vein of Gold (1997; ISBN 0-87477-836-0)
  • The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal (Tarcher, 1995; ISBN 0-87477-886-7)
  • The Money Drunk (1993)
  • The Artist's Way (1992)

Fiction

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Musicals

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  • Avalon
  • Magellan
  • The Medium at Large

Plays

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  • Four Roses
  • Public Lives
  • The Animal in the Trees

Poetry collections

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Film/TV

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  • Miami Vice TV (1 episode)
  • God's Will (independent movie)

References

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  1. ^ a b Floor Sample, by Julia Cameron, (Tarcher, 2006; ISBN 1-58542-494-3), a memoir
  2. ^ a b c d e Green, Penelope (February 2, 2019). "Julia Cameron Wants You to Do Your Morning Pages". The New York Times. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "A Biography of Julia Cameron". Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
  4. ^ a b Publishers Weekly. "Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir". Retrieved September 14, 2013.
  5. ^ "How the artist found her way, INTERVIEW BY JAY MACDONALD, Julia Cameron's path from rock bottom to creative success". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
  6. ^ "Creativity and Authenticity". The VoiceAmerica Talk. Retrieved April 20, 2023.
  7. ^ a b c "Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir. (Brief Article) (Book Review)". Publishers Weekly. 253 (8): 144. February 20, 2006.
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