Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948) is an American teacher, author,
artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, pigeon fancier,
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.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. They married in 1976 and divorced a year later in 1977;
Cameron was Scorsese's second wife. 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. 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. 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. At first she sold Xeroxed copies of the book in a
local bookstore before it was published by TarcherPerigee in 1992. She
contends that creativity is an authentic spiritual path. Julia Cameron Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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