Julia Cameron | |
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| Born | Julia B. Cameron March 4, 1948 Libertyville, Illinois, U.S. |
| Education | Georgetown University Fordham University |
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| Known for | The Artist's Way |
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| Children | Domenica Cameron-Scorsese |
| Website | juliacameronlive |
Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948 [2] ) 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.
Julia Cameron was born in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and raised Catholic. She was the second oldest of seven children. [3] She started college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University. She wrote for The Washington Post and then Rolling Stone . [4]
She met Martin Scorsese while on assignment for Oui Magazine . [3] 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 . [3] 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. [5] In 1978, reaching a point in her life when writing and drinking could no longer coexist, [6] Cameron stopped abusing drugs and alcohol, and began teaching creative unblocking, eventually publishing the book based on her work: The Artist's Way. [5] At first she sold Xeroxed copies of the book in a local bookstore before it was published by TarcherPerigee in 1992. [3] She contends that creativity is an authentic spiritual path. [4]
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. [4] At Northwestern University, she was writer in residence for film. [4] 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. [7]
Cameron has lived in Los Angeles, [8] Chicago, [8] New York City, [8] and Washington, D.C. [2] She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [3]
