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Year 606 (DCVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 606 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events[link]

By place[link]

Europe[link]

• Cearl becomes king of Mercia.

Asia[link]

• Shashanka is the first recorded independent king of Bengal (approximate date).

By topic[link]

Religion[link]

• The diocese of Aquileia becomes a patriarchate.

Births[link]

• Hafsa bint Umar, daughter of Umar and wife of Muhammad
• Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad and Khadijah bint Khuwaylid

Deaths[link]

• February 22 – Pope Sabinian
• John Climacus, Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai
• Patriarch Cyriacus of Constantinople, thirtieth Patriarch of Constantinople (595)
• Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riata
• Colmán mac Lénéni, religious poet, founder of Cluain Uama
• Pybba of Mercia, King of Mercia
• Paterius, bishop of Brescia
• Protadius, mayor of the palace of Burgundy
• Yang Su
• Yang Zhao
• Jianzhi Sengcan, Third Chinese Patriarch

References[link]

For the British photographer, see Julia Margaret Cameron.

Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948,^[1] in Illinois) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is perhaps most famous 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[link]

Julia Cameron was born and raised in a Chicago suburb, and grew up Catholic. She started college at Georgetown University, then transferred to Fordham. She started her journalism career at the Washington Post, then moved on to Rolling Stone.^[2]

She met Martin Scorsese when interviewing him for Rolling Stone. They married in 1975 and divorced in 1977; Cameron was Scorsese's second wife. They have one daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, born in 1976. Cameron and Scorsese collaborated on three films. Cameron's film God's Will is based on the Cameron-Scorsese marriage and divorce, portraying a divorced, self-centered show-business couple who die unexpectedly and end up fighting in heaven over what will happen to their daughter.^[3][4]

A review of Cameron's memoir Floor Sample states that Cameron "reveals the dark side of her privileged life: her descent into alcoholic blackouts and drug-induced paranoia as well as descriptions of her bouts with psychosis."^[5] In 1978, reaching a point in her life when writing and drinking could no longer coexist,^[6] Cameron stopped the drugs and alcohol, and began teaching creative unblocking, which propelled her to fame after she published the book based on her teachings, The Artist's Way.^[5] She states creativity is an authentic spiritual path.^[2]

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.^[2] At Northwestern University, she was writer in residence for film.^[2] 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.

Cameron has lived in Los Angeles,^[7] Chicago,^[7] Taos,^[7] and Washington D.C.,^[1] but now lives in New York City.^[2]

Bibliography[link]

Nonfiction[link]

• The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough" (Tarcher, 2011)
• 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 )
• 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
• The Sound of Paper (Tarcher, 2004; Hardcover ISBN 1-58542-288-6)
• Supplies: A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties (Tarcher, 2003; Rev&Updtd 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)
• Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance (Tarcher, 2006; ISBN-10: 1585424633)
• The Money Drunk (1993)
• The Artist's Way (1992)

Fiction[link]

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

Musicals[link]

• Avalon
• Magellan
• The Medium at Large

Plays[link]

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

Poetry[link]

• 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

Film/TV[link]

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

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External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Julia Cameron

• Julia Cameron at the Internet Movie Database
• Julia Cameron Live, official website for Julia Cameron and her online creativity workshops
• The Artist's Way, official web site for The Artist's Way
• Julia Cameron video interview Julia Cameron interviewed by her publisher at Tarcher Books
• Artist's Way At Work web site, by Mark Bryan