Old Favorites

Journal of Solitude  -May Sarton, 1973 Norton
Plant Dreaming Deep  -May Sarton, 1968 Norton
Joseph Campbell Companion, Reflections on the art of Living  -edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991 Harper Collins
The Hero With a Thousand Faces  -Joseph Campbell, 1949 Bollingen
Man's Search for Meaning  -Viktor E. Frankl, 1959 Simon & Schuster
Earthly Paradise  -Colette, 1966 Noonday
Hundreds and Thousands: the Journals of an Artist  -Emily Carr, 1966
Diary of Anne Frank  -Anne Frank
Peace is Every Step  -Thich Nhat Hanh, 1991 Bantam*If You Want to Write  -Brenda Ueland, 1938 Graywolf
Wisdom of the Heart  -Henry Miller, 1941 New Directions
Stand Still Like the Humming Bird  -Henry Miller, 1962 New Directions
Long Quiet Highway  -Natalie Goldberg, 1993 Bantam
*Writing Down the Bones  -Natalie Goldberg, Bantam
Wild Mind  -Natalie Goldberg, Bantam
Everyday Sacred  -Sue Bender, 1996 Harper Collins
Learning By Heart-Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit  -Corita Kent & Jan Steward, 1992 Bantam
Dharma Bums -Jack Kerouac, 1991 Penguin.
Wabi Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers  -Leonard Koren, 1994 Stone Bridge Press.
I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood  -Beatrice Wood, 1985 Chronicle Books.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek  -Anne Dillard, 1998 Harper Perennial.
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson  -Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2000 Princeton.
Traveling Mercies  -Anne Lammot, 1999 Anchor Books.
Walden  -Henry David Thoreau, 1998 Beacon Press.
 

Artist's Journals

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self Portrait -Frida Kahlo 2000, Abradale.
The Journal of Anais Nin
Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist  -Peter Hall, ed., 1998 Princeton.
Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan -Candy Jernigan, 1999 Chronicle Books.
Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketchbook -Sara Midda, 1990, Workman.
Moonlight Chronicles: A Wandering Artist's Journal -Dan Price, 2000, Ten Speed Press.
Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath 1938-1941 -John Steinbeck, 1990 Penguin.
  

Research for Artist's/Illustrators

How to Make a Living Doing What you Love

How to Start as an Illustrator -Promotion Basics
Freelance Illustrator's Job Acceptance Check List
Seven Steps to Getting Published -or How to Sell Your Ideas