Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Born
Julia B. Cameron

(1948-03-04) March 4, 1948 (age 76)
Libertyville, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationGeorgetown University
Fordham University
Occupations
  • Teacher
  • author
  • filmmaker
  • playwright
  • journalist
Known forThe Artist's Way
Spouses
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(m. 1976; div. 1977)​
ChildrenDomenica Cameron-Scorsese
Websitejuliacameronlive.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.

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

  • Avalon
  • Magellan
  • The Medium at Large

Plays

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

Poetry collections

Film/TV

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

References

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

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