Julia Cameron

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Julia B. Cameron
Born (1948-03-04) March 4, 1948
Libertyville, Illinois, U.S.
EducationGeorgetown University
Fordham University
Occupations
  • Teacher
  • author
  • filmmaker
  • playwright
  • journalist
Known forThe Artist's Way
Spouses
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    (m. 1976; div. 1977)​
      Mark Bryan
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      (div. 1993)​
      [1]
      ChildrenDomenica Cameron-Scorsese
      Websitejuliacameronlive.com

      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.

      Biography

      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, Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C.[2][5] She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[3]

      Works

      Nonfiction

      Memoir

      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. Avins, Mimi (November 17, 1999). "Bringing Dads Back Into the Fold". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 3, 2026.
      2. Floor Sample, by Julia Cameron, (Tarcher, 2006; ISBN 1-58542-494-3), a memoir
      3. Green, Penelope (February 2, 2019). "Julia Cameron Wants You to Do Your Morning Pages". The New York Times. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
      4. "A Biography of Julia Cameron". Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
      5. "Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir". Publishers Weekly. February 20, 2006. p. 144. ProQuest 197109718. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
      6. "How the artist found her way, INTERVIEW BY JAY MACDONALD, Julia Cameron's path from rock bottom to creative success". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
      7. "Creativity and Authenticity". The VoiceAmerica Talk. Retrieved April 20, 2023.
      8. Pyette, David (September 19, 1992). "Personal Affairs Editor's Choice | Money is a substance abused with devastating effects". The Globe and Mail. p. B21. ProQuest 385378790.
      9. Paleologos, Mary (October 15, 1992). "Author maps a route to constant creative flow". Southtown Star – via newspapers.com.
      10. Ensor, Deborah (October 22, 1992). "Julia Cameron helps creativity, imagination to flow once more". The Taos News. pp. D9, D16 – via newspapers.com.
      11. Piccalo, Gina (August 13, 2006). "Bringing the private out into the public". The Tribune. p. H3 – via newspapers.com.