Natalie Goldberg Explained
Natalie Goldberg |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1948 |
Birth Place: | 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),
- Writing Down the Bones (1986),
- 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),
- The True Secret of Writing (2013)
- The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life (2016),
- Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir (2018),
- Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku (2021),
- Writing Down the Bones Deck: 60 Cards to Free the Writer Within (2021),
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: New Mexico Women: Natalie Goldberg. Shapland . Jenn . 26 July 2019 . Southwest Contemporary . 15 December 2020.
- Web site: Frugal Traveler: Mellowing on a Canadian Isle. The New York Times. May 23, 2013.
- Web site: Keep The Hand Moving Natalie Goldberg On Zen And The Art Of Writing Practice. The Sun. May 23, 2013.
- Web site: What Failure Can teach Us. Beliefnet. May 23, 2013.
- Web site: Beyond Betrayal. . May 4, 2013.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140513082210/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-65415715.html "Writing Is Like Wrestling Buddha; For Guru Goldberg, It's A Religious Act."
- 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).