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Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir Eat, Pray, Love has been called “a generation’s instruction manual” (Toronto Sun). Exploding onto the scene in 2006, the bestseller famously chronicled the year Gilbert spent traveling the world after a shattering divorce. Translated into more than 30 languages, Eat, Pray, Love has sold over ten million copies worldwide. The book — “fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit, and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible” (The New York Times Book Review)—catapulted its author from respected but little-recognized writer to a woman Oprah Winfrey has called a “rock star author.”

Named as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, O Magazine, NPR, and Time Magazine, Gilbert's latest, The Signature of All Things, is a sweeping story of botany, exploration and desire, spanning across much of the 19th century. Gilbert's first novel in twelve years, it has been lauded by O Magazine as “the novel of a lifetime" and praised by the Washington Post as "that rare literary achievement: a big, panoramic novel about life and love that captures the idiom and tenor of its age."

Gilbert makes her home in a Victorian house in New Jersey, where she writes and owns an import store, Two Buttons, with her husband. For more information about Elizabeth Gilbert and her work, please go to www.elizabethgilbert.com.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Articles

Personal Growth

The Final Obstacle Is Us

Almost every night during book tour, I end up talking about the same subject with my audience. My audiences are pretty much entirely composed of women (though I love you, too, my emotionally-secure ma …

Elizabeth Gilbert
Personal Growth

Perspective: Trading Truth for Compassion

Shortly after my beloved grandmother died, her three adult children (my father, my aunt, and my uncle) gathered in her kitchen once more. It was a few weeks after the funeral, and they were all feelin …

Elizabeth Gilbert
Personal Growth

Life Lessons: Wisdom Seeps in Slowly

I've been thinking lately about how long it takes to become wise. A few weeks ago, I was driving around with a friend, and we were talking—as friends do—about our troubles. I was talking about a rift …

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Personal Growth

Healthy Ways to Take in Mass Media News

Recently, a young woman asked me how I cope with all the bad news in the world these days. She’s not sure how to manage it all. As an intelligent and thoughtful person, she feels an obligation to stay …

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