Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948) 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. 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. 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.

Cameron has lived in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

Memoir

  • Floor Sample (Tarcher, 2006)
  • The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration (Tarcher, 2010)

Fiction

  • Popcorn: Hollywood Stories (Really Great Books, 2000)
  • The Dark Room (Carroll & Graf Pub,1998)

Musicals

  • Avalon
  • Magellan
  • The Medium at Large

Plays

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

Poetry collections

  • This Earth (Sounds True, 1997; )
  • Prayers for the little ones (Renaissance Books, 1999; )
  • Prayers to the nature spirits (Renaissance Books, 1999; )
  • The Quiet Animal

Film/TV

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

References

  • Julia Cameron Live, official website for Julia Cameron and her online creativity workshops
  • Julia Cameron video interview Julia Cameron interviewed by her publisher at Tarcher Books