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Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert on Inspiration
Elizabeth Gilbert talks about an important lesson she learned from the mother. Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Elizabeth Gilbert Dissects the "Chick Lit" Label
Elizabeth Gilbert spent most of her early career writing about and for men; now, she's labeled a "chick lit" writer. Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Elizabeth Gilbert's Thoughts on Modern Love
Spiritual sex with Elizabeth Gilbert Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Love, Sex, & Happiness
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Elizabeth Gilbert Discusses Spirituality in America
Elizabeth Gilbert says there is a danger in America of having too many choices. Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Belief
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Self-Help Tips From Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert discusses a wide variety of treatments for life’s problems. Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Inspiration & Wisdom, Health & Medicine
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Elizabeth Gilbert Discusses Her Book, Eat, Pray, Love
As a writer with the freedom and time to travel, Elizabeth Gilbert used Eat, Pray, Love as a way of taking others on a spiritual journey. Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Elizabeth Gilbert Discusses Her Spiritual Journey
Elizabeth Gilbert argues that spiritual self-discovery doesn't have to happen through travel. Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Belief
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Elizabeth Gilbert Shares Helpful Creative Processes
While physical discipline in writing is important, meditation and yoga fall by the wayside during periods of intense creativity. Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Elizabeth Gilbert Discusses the Writers’ Life
In life, says Elizabeth Gilbert, we are all handed one simple gift. Hers is writing. Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Big Think Interview With Elizabeth Gilbert
A conversation with author Elizabeth Gilbert. Read More
May 11, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
Her most recent book is the #1 New York Times Bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love," about the year she spent traveling the world alone after a difficult divorce. Anne Lamott called Eat, Pray, Love "wise, jaunty, human, ethereal, heartbreaking." The book has been a worldwide success, now published in over thirty languages with over 7 million copies in print. It was named by The New York Times as one of the 100 most notable books of 2006, and chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the best ten nonfiction books of the year. In 2008, Elizabeth was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, by Time Magazine.
In addition to writing books, Elizabeth has worked steadily as a journalist. Throughout much of the 1990’s she was on staff at SPIN Magazine, where – with humor and pathos – she chronicled diverse individuals and subcultures, covering everything from rodeo's Buckle Bunnies (reprinted in The KGB Bar Reader) to China’s headlong construction of the Three Gorges Dam. In 1999, Elizabeth began working for GQ magazine, where her profiles of extraordinary men – from singers Hank Williams III and Tom Waits (reprinted in The Tom Waits Reader) to quadriplegic athlete Jim Maclaren – earned her three National Magazine Award Nominations, as well as repeated appearances in the “Best American” magazine writing anthologies. She has also written for such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Real Simple, Allure, Travel and Leisure and O, the Oprah Magazine (where her memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" was excerpted in March, 2006.) She has been a contributor to the Public Radio show "This American Life", and -- perhaps most proudly -- has several times shown up at John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lecture Series, most notably during Lecture Four on the subject "Hints for Public Singing."
