Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948^[1]) 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.

Julia Cameron was born in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and raised Catholic. She was the second oldest of seven children.^[2] She started college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University. She wrote for The Washington Post and then Rolling Stone.^[3]

She met Martin Scorsese while on assignment for Oui Magazine.^[2] 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.^[2] 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.^[4] In 1978, reaching a point in her life when writing and drinking could no longer coexist,^[5] Cameron stopped abusing drugs and alcohol, and began teaching creative unblocking, eventually publishing the book based on her work: The Artist's Way.^[4] At first she sold Xeroxed copies of the book in a local bookstore before it was published by TarcherPerigee in 1992.^[2] She contends that creativity is an authentic spiritual path.^[3]

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.^[3] At Northwestern University, she was writer in residence for film.^[3] 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.^[6]

Cameron has lived in Los Angeles,^[7] Chicago,^[7] New York City,^[7] and Washington, D.C.^[1] She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.^[2]

• Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity (St. Martin's Press, 2024; ISBN 978-1-250-89758-9)
• Write for Life: A Toolkit for Writers (Profile Books, 2023)
• Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection (A Six-Week Artist's Way Program) (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
• The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
• It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond (Tarcher, 2016)
• The Artist's Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children (Tarcher/Hay House, 2013)
• The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough" (Tarcher/Hay House, 2011; ISBN 978-1-58542-897-7)
• Faith and Will: Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives (Tarcher, 2010; ISBN 1585428019)
• The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration (Tarcher, 2010)
• The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Tarcher, 2009)
• Prayers to the Great Creator: Prayers and Declarations for a Meaningful Life (Tarcher, 2008)
• The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size (Tarcher, 2007; ISBN 1-58542-571-0)
• Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance (Tarcher, 2006; ISBN 1585424633)
• Floor Sample (Tarcher, 2006; ISBN 1-58542-494-3), a memoir
• How to Avoid Making Art (2006; ISBN 1-58542-438-2), illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron
• Letters to a Young Artist (Tarcher, 2005)
• The Sound of Paper (Tarcher, 2004; Hardcover ISBN 1-58542-288-6)
• Supplies: A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties (Tarcher, 2003; Revised & Updated edition ISBN 1-58542-212-6)
• Walking in this World (Tarcher, 2003; Reprint edition ISBN 1-58542-261-4)
• The Artist's Way, 10th Annv edition (Tarcher, 2002; ISBN 1-58542-146-4)
• Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way (Tarcher, 2001; ISBN 1-58542-102-2)
• God is Dog Spelled Backwards (Tarcher, 2000; ISBN 1-58542-062-X)
• God is No Laughing Matter (Tarcher, 2000; ISBN 1-58542-065-4)
• Supplies: A Pilot's Manual for Creative Flight (2000)
• The Artist's Date Book (Tarcher, 1999; ISBN 0-87477-653-8), illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron Evans
• Money Drunk Money Sober (Ballantine Wellspring, 1999; ISBN 0-345-43265-7)
• The Writing Life (Sounds True, 1999; ISBN 1-56455-725-1)
• Transitions (Tarcher, 1999; ISBN 0-87477-995-2)
• The Artist's Way at Work (Pan, 1998; ISBN 0-330-37319-6)
• Blessings (Tarcher, 1998; ISBN 0-87477-906-5)
• The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (Tarcher, 1998; ISBN 1-58542-009-3)
• Heart Steps (Tarcher, 1997; ISBN 0-87477-899-9)
• The Vein of Gold (1997; ISBN 0-87477-836-0)
• The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal (Tarcher, 1995; ISBN 0-87477-886-7)
• The Money Drunk (1993)
• The Artist's Way (1992)

• Popcorn: Hollywood Stories (Really Great Books, 2000; ISBN 1-893329-12-7)
• The Dark Room (Carroll & Graf Pub,1998; ISBN 0-7867-0564-7)

• Avalon
• Magellan
• The Medium at Large

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

• This Earth (Sounds True, 1997; ISBN 1-56455-549-6)
• Prayers for the little ones (Renaissance Books, 1999; ISBN 1-58063-048-0)
• Prayers to the nature spirits (Renaissance Books, 1999; ISBN 1-58063-047-2)
• The Quiet Animal

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

• Julia Cameron at IMDb
• 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