Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Born March 4, 1948 (1948-03-04) (age 60)
Libertyville, Illinois, U.S.
Residence New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Georgetown University,
Fordham
Occupation Teacher,
Author,
Filmmaker,
Playwright,
Journalist
Known for The Artist's Way
Spouse Martin Scorsese,
Mark Bryan
Children Domenica Cameron-Scorsese
Website
The Artist's Way
For the influential 19th century British photographer, see Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Cameron (born 4 March 1948 in Illinois) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is perhaps most famous for her book The Artist's Way (1992), though she has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, award-winning essays and hard-hitting political journalism, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays.

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[edit] Biography

Cameron was raised Catholic in a book-filled home. She started college at Georgetown University, then transferred to Fordham, drinking, experiencing memory blackouts, but maintaining an excellent GPA. A prolific writer since age 18, she started her journalism career at the Washington Post, then moved on to Rolling Stone.[1]

She met Martin Scorsese at Rolling Stone. They married in 1975 and later divorced; Cameron was Scorsese's second wife. They have one daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, born in 1976. Cameron and Scorsese collaborated on three films. Cameron's play, God's Will, is based on the Cameron-Scorsese marriage and divorce, lampooning a divorced, self-centered show business couple who die unexpectedly and end up fighting in heaven over what will happen to their daughter.[2]

A review of Cameron's memoir Floor Samples states: Cameron "reveals the dark side of her privileged life: her descent into alcoholic blackouts and drug-induced paranoia as well as descriptions of her bouts with psychosis."[3] In 1978, reaching a point in her life when writing and drinking could no longer coexist,[4] Cameron stopped the drugs and alcohol, found God, and started a daily writing quota that propelled her to fame.[3] She states creativity is an authentic spiritual path. Her work has been accepted by Buddhists, Sufis, Roman Catholics, Church of Religious Science, Unity, and British Wiccans.[1]

Cameron is also a teacher, having taught at The Smithsonian, Esalen, and Northwestern University as writer in residence for film.[1]

Cameron has lived in Los Angeles, Chicago, Taos, and Washington D.C., but now calls New York City home.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Nonfiction

[edit] Fiction

[edit] Musicals

  • Avalon
  • Magellan
  • Medium at Large

[edit] Plays

  • Four Roses
  • Public Lives
  • The Animal in the Trees
  • God's Will

[edit] Poetry

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c A Biography of Julia Cameron. Retrieved on 2007-09-14.
  2. ^ Keyser, Les (1998). Twayne's Filmmakers Series: Martin Scorsese. Twayne Publishers: New York, 188. ISBN 0805793216. 
  3. ^ a b Booklist. Review of Floor Samples. Retrieved on 2007-09-14.
  4. ^ How the artist found her way, INTERVIEW BY JAY MACDONALD, Julia Cameron's path from rock bottom to creative success. Retrieved on 2007-09-14.

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NAME Cameron, Julia
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SHORT DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Libertyville, Illinois, United States
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