Marianne Williamson trivia: 40 facts about the American author!

Marianne Williamson is an American author, lecturer and activist. She has announced her campaign for the 2020 United States presidential election!

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her!

1. Her full name is Marianne Deborah Williamson
2. She was born in July 8, 1952
3. She is an American author, lecturer, and activist
4. She has written 13 books
5. Including four New York Times number one bestsellers within the ‘Advice, How To and Miscellaneous’ category
6. She is the founder of Project Angel Food
7. A volunteer food delivery program that serves home-bound people with AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses
8. She is also the co-founder of the Peace Alliance
9. A nonprofit grassroots education and advocacy organization supporting peace-building projects
10. In 2014, as an independent, Williamson ran unsuccessfully for the seat of California’s 33rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives elections in California
11. On January 29, 2019, she announced her campaign to seek the Democratic nomination for the 2020 United States presidential election
12. Marianne Williamson was born in Houston, Texas, in 1952
13. She is the youngest of three children of Samuel “Sam” Williamson
14. An immigration lawyer
15. And Sophie Ann (Kaplan), a homemaker
16. Her family is Jewish
17. She was raised in Conservative Judaism
18. After graduating from Houston’s Bellaire High School, Williamson spent two years studying theater and philosophy at Pomona College in Claremont, California
19. Marianne Williamson dropped out of college her junior year in 1973
20. She moved to New York City
21. Intending to pursue a career as a cabaret singer
22. In 1979, after delving into A Course in Miracles, she returned to Houston
23. There she ran a combination metaphysical bookstore and coffeeshop
24. In 1983 she moved to Los Angeles
25. She began regularly lecturing on A Course in Miracles in Los Angeles and New York City
26. And eventually in other cities in the U.S. and Europe as well
27. She published her first book, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, in 1992
28. Williamson’s first book, A Return To Love, was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1992
29. It remained on The New York Times bestseller list for 39 weeks in the ‘Advice, How To and Miscellaneous’ category
30. She has published 12 other books
31. Seven of which have been on the same New York Times bestseller list and four of which have been #1
32. She has sold more than 3 million copies of her books
33. In 2018, she published a 20th anniversary revised edition of Healing the Soul of America
34. She has been a guest on television programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, and Real Time with Bill Maher
35. In December 2006, a Newsweek magazine poll named her one of the 50 most influential baby boomers
36. She bases her teaching and writing on A Course in Miracles
37. A nonreligious self-study program of spiritual psychotherapy
38. Based on universal spiritual themes
39. Williamson was briefly married
40. In 1990, she gave birth to a daughter, India Emma