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Nationality  American
Name  Marianne Williamson
Ethnicity  Jewish
Role  Spiritual teacher
Education  Bellaire High School
Children  India Emmaline
Alma mater  Pomona College

Marianne Williamson Meet Our May Editor Marianne Williamson
Full Name  Marianne Deborah Williamson
Born  July 8, 1952 (age 71) (1952-07-08) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation  New Age guru, self-help author
Movies  The Shadow Effect, Marianne Williamson: Everyday Grace, The Gospel According to Jesus, A Course in Miracles
Parents  Sam Williamson, Sophie Ann Williamson
Books  A Return to Love, Illuminata, A Course in Weight Loss: 21, Everyday Grace: Having H, A woman's worth
Similar People  A Course in Miracles, Deepak Chopra, Anne Lamott, Scott Cervine
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Marianne Deborah Williamson (born July 8, 1952) is an American spiritual teacher, author and lecturer. She has published eleven books, including four New York Times number one bestsellers. She is the founder of Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area, and the co-founder of The Peace Alliance, a grassroots campaign supporting legislation to establish a United States Department of Peace. She serves on the Board of Directors of the RESULTS organization, which works to end poverty in the United States and around the world. Williamson also produces the Sister Giant Conferences, highlighting the intersection of spirituality and politics.

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Press and TV

She has been a guest on television programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose and Real Time with Bill Maher. In December 2006, a Newsweek magazine poll named her one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. According to Time magazine, "Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity." Williamson bases her teaching and writing on a set of books called A Course in Miracles, a self-study program of spiritual psychotherapy, based on universal spiritual themes.

Books

Williamson has sold a combined total of more than 3,000,000 books, a canon which led The New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich to label her a "self-help guru".

A quote from her book A Return to Love, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure," is one of the most oft-quoted passages of our time.

Personal life

Marianne was born to a Jewish family in Houston, Texas, in 1952. She is the youngest of three children of Samuel "Sam" Williamson, an immigration lawyer, and his homemaker wife, Sophie Ann (Kaplan). After graduating from Houston's Bellaire High School, Williamson put in two years studying theater and philosophy at Pomona College in Claremont, California before dropping out in her Junior year and moving to New York City to pursue a career as a cabaret singer.

In 1979 Williamson returned to Houston, where she ran a metaphysical bookstore. In 1987 she helped found the Los Angeles Center for Living, a support facility for those with life-threatening illnesses. Two years later she began Project Angel Food, to deliver meals to AIDS patients. In 1990 Williamson had her only child, India Emmaline. She refuses to identify or discuss the father of her daughter, and instead chose to raise India alone as an "unwed Jewish mother."

Published works

  • A Return to Love, First Edition 1992 (ISBN 9780060927486)
  • Imagine What America Could Be in the 21st Century: Visions of a Better Future from Leading American Thinkers (ISBN 0451204697)
  • Emma & Mommy Talk to God (ISBN 9780060799267)
  • Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens (ISBN 9780684846224)
  • A Woman's Worth (ISBN 9780345386571)
  • Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships (ISBN 9780684870250)
  • Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, And Making Miracles (ISBN 9781573223515)
  • Illuminata: A Return to Prayer (ISBN 9781573225205)
  • The Gift of Change (ISBN 0060816112)
  • The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money and Miracles (ISBN 0062205412)
  • A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever (ISBN 1401921531)
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