1. Elizabeth Gilbert was born on July 18,1969 and is an American journalist and author.
26 Facts About Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert is best known for her 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages.
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Elizabeth Gilbert's father, John Gilbert, was a chemical engineer at Uniroyal; her mother, Carole, was a nurse and established a Planned Parenthood clinic.
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When Gilbert was four, her parents bought a Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut.
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Elizabeth Gilbert stated in a New York Times interview that she was influenced by Ernest Hemingway's early career, and his short story collection, In Our Time.
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Elizabeth Gilbert believed that writers find stories not in a seminar room but by investigating the world.
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Elizabeth Gilbert held various jobs including a trail cook, bartender, and waitress while storing up experiences for her writing.
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Elizabeth Gilbert was the first unpublished short story writer to debut in Esquire since Norman Mailer.
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Elizabeth Gilbert stated in the memoir Eat, Pray, Love that she made a career as a highly-paid freelance writer.
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Elizabeth Gilbert adapted her 1998 GQ article "The Last American Man" into a biography of the modern woodsman and naturalist Eustace Conway in The Last American Man.
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In 2006, Elizabeth Gilbert published Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, a chronicle of her year of "spiritual and personal exploration" spent traveling abroad.
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Elizabeth Gilbert financed her world travel for the book with a $200,000 publisher's advance after pitching the concept in a book proposal.
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Elizabeth Gilbert appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007, and has reappeared on the show to further discuss the book, her philosophy, and the film.
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Elizabeth Gilbert was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, and named to Oprah's SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders.
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Elizabeth Gilbert published her second novel, The Signature of All Things, in 2013.
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In 2015, Elizabeth Gilbert published Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, a self-help book that provides instructions on how to live a life as creative as hers.
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Elizabeth Gilbert continued the work started in Big Magic with her Magic Lessons podcast in which she interviews famous creatives including Brene Brown and Sarah Jones.
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Elizabeth Gilbert identifies Marcus Aurelius's Meditations as her favorite book on philosophy.
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Elizabeth Gilbert declared Jack Gilbert as "the poet laureate of my life" when she succeeded him as a writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee in 2006.
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In 2016, Elizabeth Gilbert shared a video of herself singing a karaoke version of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" to raise money for BlinkNow Foundation, an organization inspired in part by Eat, Pray, Love.
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Elizabeth Gilbert was married to Michael Cooper, whom she met while working at the Coyote Ugly Saloon, from 1994 to 2002.
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In 2007, Elizabeth Gilbert married Jose Nunes, whom she met in Bali while on the travels she describes in Eat, Pray, Love.
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On July 1,2016, Elizabeth Gilbert announced on her Facebook page that she and Nunes were separating, saying that the split was "very amicable" and that their reasons were "very personal".
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On September 7,2016, Elizabeth Gilbert published another Facebook post saying that she was in a relationship with her female best friend, writer Rayya Elias, and that this relationship was related to the breakup of her marriage.
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The relationship began because Elizabeth Gilbert realized her feelings for Elias, following the latter's terminal cancer diagnosis.
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On March 25,2019, Elizabeth Gilbert posted on Instagram that she was in a relationship with United Kingdom-born photographer Simon MacArthur, who was a close friend of Elias.