She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico Works Nonfiction Ĭameron has lived in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C. 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. At Northwestern University, she was writer in residence for film.

She has taught at The Smithsonian, Esalen, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, and the New York Open Center. Ĭameron has taught filmmaking, creative unblocking, and writing. She contends that creativity is an authentic spiritual path. At first she sold Xeroxed copies of the book in a local bookstore before it was published by TarcherPerigee in 1992. 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. Her memoir Floor Sample details her descent into alcoholism and drug addiction, which induced blackouts, paranoia and psychosis. Cameron and Scorsese collaborated on three films. The marriage ended after Scorsese began seeing Liza Minnelli while the three of them were working on New York, New York. They have one daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, born in 1976. They married in 1976 and divorced a year later in 1977. She met Martin Scorsese while on assignment for Oui Magazine. She wrote for The Washington Post and then Rolling Stone. She started college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University.

She was the second oldest of seven children. Julia Cameron was born in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and raised Catholic. She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays. She is best known for her book The Artist's Way (1992). Cameron (born Ma) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, pigeon fancier, composer, and journalist.

Write for Life by Julia Cameron