Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948[2]) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist.
She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays.
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.
She has taught at The Smithsonian, Esalen, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, and the New York Open Center.