Natalie Goldberg
Template:Short description Template:Infobox writer Natalie Goldberg (born January 4, 1948)<ref name="shapland">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an American popular author and speaker.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Life
Goldberg has studied Zen Buddhism for more than thirty years<ref name="belief">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and practiced with Dainin Katagiri Roshi for six years.<ref name="belief"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Goldberg is a teacher who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her 1986 book Writing Down the Bones sold over two million copies and is considered an influential work on the craft of writing.<ref>"Writing Is Like Wrestling Buddha; For Guru Goldberg, It's A Religious Act." The Capital Times, September 22, 2000.</ref><ref>John F. Baker," Goldberg Moving to Harper San Francisco", Publishers Weekly, October 31, 2003.</ref><ref>Cecilia Goodnow, "A Memoirist's How-To Book: Bring Fearlessness" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 5, 2008.</ref> Her 2013 book, The True Secret of Writing, is a follow-up to that work.<ref>Jean Fain, "Author Natalie Goldberg on the Zen of Living, Writing and Eating", Huffington Post, March 4, 2013.</ref><ref>Helen Gallagher, "The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language" Template:Webarchive, New York Journal of Books (accessed 2013-03-19).</ref>
Books
- Chicken and in Love (1979), Template:ISBN
- Writing Down the Bones (1986), Template:ISBN
- Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life (1990)
- Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America (1993)
- Banana Rose (1995)
- Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World (1997)
- Thunder and Lightning (2000)
- The Essential Writer's Notebook (2001)
- Top of My Lungs (2002)
- The Great Failure (2004)
- Old Friend From Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir (2008), Template:ISBN
- The True Secret of Writing (2013)
- The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life (2016), Template:ISBN
- Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir (2018), Template:ISBN
- Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku (2021), Template:ISBN
- Writing Down the Bones Deck: 60 Cards to Free the Writer Within (2021), Template:ISBN
- Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice (2024), Template:ISBN