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American writer (born 1948)
Natalie Goldberg
Born (1948-01-04 ) January 4, 1948 (age 76)
Brooklyn, New York , U.S.Occupation Writer, teacher, Zen practitioner
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]
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
^ Shapland, Jenn (26 July 2019).
"New Mexico Women: Natalie Goldberg" . Southwest Contemporary . Retrieved 15 December 2020 .
^
"Frugal Traveler: Mellowing on a Canadian Isle" .
The New York Times . Retrieved May 23, 2013 .
^
"Keep The Hand Moving Natalie Goldberg On Zen And The Art Of Writing Practice" .
The Sun . Retrieved May 23, 2013 .
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b
"What Failure Can teach Us" .
Beliefnet . Retrieved May 23, 2013 .
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"Beyond Betrayal" .
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review . Retrieved May 4, 2013 .
^
"Writing Is Like Wrestling Buddha; For Guru Goldberg, It's A Religious Act."
The Capital Times , September 22, 2000.
^ John F. Baker,
" Goldberg Moving to Harper San Francisco" ,
Publishers Weekly , October 31, 2003.
^ Cecilia Goodnow,
"A Memoirist's How-To Book: Bring Fearlessness"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer , March 5, 2008.
^ Jean Fain,
"Author Natalie Goldberg on the Zen of Living, Writing and Eating" ,
Huffington Post , March 4, 2013.
^ Helen Gallagher,
"The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language" , New York Journal of Books (accessed 2013-03-19).
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