Julia Cameron


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

Julia Cameron was born in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and raised Catholic. She was the second oldest of seven children. She started college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University. She wrote for The Washington Post and then Rolling Stone.
She met Martin Scorsese while on assignment for Oui Magazine. 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. 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. In 1978, reaching a point in her life when writing and drinking could no longer coexist, Cameron stopped abusing drugs and alcohol, and began teaching creative unblocking, eventually publishing the book based on her work: The Artist's Way. At first she sold Xeroxed copies of the book in a local bookstore before it was published by TarcherPerigee in 1992. She contends that creativity is an authentic spiritual path.
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. At Northwestern University, she was writer in residence for film. 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.
Cameron has lived in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Works

Nonfiction

  • , 142 pagesLiving the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity Write for Life: A Toolkit for Writers Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond The Artist's Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough" Faith and Will: Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living Prayers to the Great Creator: Prayers and Declarations for a Meaningful Life The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance How to Avoid Making Art , illustrated by Elizabeth CameronLetters to a Young Artist The Sound of Paper Supplies: A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties Walking in this World The Artist's Way, 10th Annv edition Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way God is Dog Spelled Backwards God is No Laughing Matter Supplies: A Pilot's Manual for Creative Flight The Artist's Date Book, illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron EvansMoney Drunk Money Sober The Writing Life Transitions The Artist's Way at Work Blessings The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life Heart Steps The Vein of Gold The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal The Money Drunk
  • ''The Artist's Way''

Memoir

Floor Sample
  • ''The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration''

Fiction

Popcorn: Hollywood Stories
  • ''The Dark Room''

Musicals

AvalonMagellan
  • ''The Medium at Large''

Plays

Four RosesPublic Lives
  • ''The Animal in the Trees''

Poetry collections

This Earth Prayers for the little ones Prayers to the nature spirits
  • ''The Quiet Animal''

Film/TV

Miami Vice TV
  • ''God's Will''