Julia Cameron

Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948<ref name="Floor Sample">Floor Sample, by Julia Cameron, (Tarcher, 2006; Template:ISBN), a memoir</ref>) 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

Julia Cameron was born in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and raised Catholic. She was the second oldest of seven children.<ref name="green">Template:Cite news</ref> She started college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University. She wrote for The Washington Post and then Rolling Stone.<ref name=taw.com-bio>Template:Cite web</ref>

She met Martin Scorsese while on assignment for Oui Magazine.<ref name="green"/> 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.<ref name="green"/> 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.<ref name=amazon-review-floor-sample>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1978, reaching a point in her life when writing and drinking could no longer coexist,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Cameron stopped abusing drugs and alcohol, and began teaching creative unblocking, eventually publishing the book based on her work: The Artist's Way.<ref name=amazon-review-floor-sample /> At first she sold Xeroxed copies of the book in a local bookstore before it was published by TarcherPerigee in 1992.<ref name="green"/> She contends that creativity is an authentic spiritual path.<ref name=taw.com-bio/>

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.<ref name=taw.com-bio /> At Northwestern University, she was writer in residence for film.<ref name=taw.com-bio /> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Cameron has lived in Los Angeles,<ref name="PW Floor Sample review">Template:Cite journal</ref> Chicago,<ref name="PW Floor Sample review"/> New York City,<ref name="PW Floor Sample review"/> and Washington, D.C.<ref name="Floor Sample"/> She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<ref name="green"/>

Works

Nonfiction

• Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity (St. Martin's Press, 2024; Template:ISBN)
• 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; Template:ISBN)
• Faith and Will: Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives (Tarcher, 2010; Template:ISBN)
• 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; Template:ISBN)
• Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance (Tarcher, 2006; Template:ISBN)
• Floor Sample (Tarcher, 2006; Template:ISBN), a memoir
• How to Avoid Making Art (2006; Template:ISBN), illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron
• Letters to a Young Artist (Tarcher, 2005)
• The Sound of Paper (Tarcher, 2004; Hardcover Template:ISBN)
• Supplies: A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties (Tarcher, 2003; Revised & Updated edition Template:ISBN)
• Walking in this World (Tarcher, 2003; Reprint edition Template:ISBN)
• The Artist's Way, 10th Annv edition (Tarcher, 2002; Template:ISBN)
• Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way (Tarcher, 2001; Template:ISBN)
• God is Dog Spelled Backwards (Tarcher, 2000; Template:ISBN)
• God is No Laughing Matter (Tarcher, 2000; Template:ISBN)
• Supplies: A Pilot's Manual for Creative Flight (2000)
• The Artist's Date Book (Tarcher, 1999; Template:ISBN), illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron Evans
• Money Drunk Money Sober (Ballantine Wellspring, 1999; Template:ISBN)
• The Writing Life (Sounds True, 1999; Template:ISBN)
• Transitions (Tarcher, 1999; Template:ISBN)
• The Artist's Way at Work (Pan, 1998; Template:ISBN)
• Blessings (Tarcher, 1998; Template:ISBN)
• The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (Tarcher, 1998; Template:ISBN)
• Heart Steps (Tarcher, 1997; Template:ISBN)
• The Vein of Gold (1997; Template:ISBN)
• The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal (Tarcher, 1995; Template:ISBN)
• The Money Drunk (1993)
• The Artist's Way (1992)

Fiction

• Popcorn: Hollywood Stories (Really Great Books, 2000; Template:ISBN)
• The Dark Room (Carroll & Graf Pub,1998; Template:ISBN)

Musicals

• Avalon
• Magellan
• The Medium at Large

Plays

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

Poetry collections

• This Earth (Sounds True, 1997; Template:ISBN)
• Prayers for the little ones (Renaissance Books, 1999; Template:ISBN)
• Prayers to the nature spirits (Renaissance Books, 1999; Template:ISBN)
• The Quiet Animal

Film/TV

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

External links

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• Julia Cameron Live, official website for Julia Cameron and her online creativity workshops
• Julia Cameron video interview Julia Cameron interviewed by her publisher at Tarcher Books