Natalie Goldberg (born January 4, 1948)[1] is an American popular author and speaker.[2] She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice.[3]
Natalie Goldberg | |
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Born | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | January 4, 1948
Occupation | Writer, teacher, Zen practitioner |
Life
Goldberg has studied Zen Buddhism for more than thirty years[4] and practiced with Dainin Katagiri Roshi for six years.[4][5] Goldberg is a teacher who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her 1986 book Writing Down the Bones sold over a million copies and is considered an influential work on the craft of writing.[6][7][8] Her 2013 book, The True Secret of Writing, is a follow-up to that work.[9][10]
Books
- Chicken and in Love (1979), ISBN 978-0-930100-04-9
- Writing Down the Bones (1986), ISBN 0-87773-375-9
- Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life (1990)
- Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America (1993)
- Banana Rose (1995)
- Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World (1997)
- Thunder and Lightning (2000)
- The Essential Writer's Notebook (2001)
- Top of My Lungs (2002)
- The Great Failure (2004)
- Old Friend From Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir (2008), ISBN 978-1-4165-3502-7
- The True Secret of Writing (2013)
- The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life (2016), ISBN 978-1-61180-316-7
- Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir (2018), ISBN 978-1611805673
- Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku (2021), ISBN 978-1608686971
- Writing Down the Bones Deck: 60 Cards to Free the Writer Within (2021), ISBN 978-1611809008
References
External links
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