Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Born
Julia B. Cameron

(1948-03-04) March 4, 1948 (age 76)
NationalityAmerican
Education Georgetown University
Fordham University
Occupations
  • Teacher
  • author
  • filmmaker
  • playwright
  • journalist
Known forThe Artist's Way
Spouses
(m. 1976;div. 1977)
Children Domenica Cameron-Scorsese
Website juliacameronlive.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.

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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. [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

Nonfiction

Fiction

Musicals

Plays

Poetry collections

Film/TV

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References

  1. 1 2 Floor Sample, by Julia Cameron, (Tarcher, 2006; ISBN   1-58542-494-3), a memoir
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Green, Penelope (February 2, 2019). "Julia Cameron Wants You to Do Your Morning Pages". The New York Times . Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "A Biography of Julia Cameron". Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
  4. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 "Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir. (Brief Article) (Book Review)". Publishers Weekly. 253 (8): 144. February 20, 2006.