Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth M. Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American writer.

She is best known for her 2006 book Eat, Pray, Love, which had been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 199 weeks as of December 2010, and that was also made into a film by the same name in 2010.

Early life

Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1969. John Gilbert, the father of Uniroyal, was a chemical engineer; Carole, her mother, a nurse, and founded a Planned Parenthood clinic.

Gilbert's parents purchased a Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut, when she was four years old. The family lived in a rural area with no neighbors; they did not have a television or record player. As a result, the family read a lot, and Gilbert and her older sister Catherine Gilbert Murdock entertained themselves by writing novels and plays. Gilbert has stated that her parents were not hippies but modern pioneers, "My parents are the only ones I've ever heard" who made their own goat's-milk yogurt and voted for Reagan twice. That's a Venn diagram that doesn't include anyone else.

Gilbert studied at New York University. In an interview, she said, "I never thought that the best place for me to discover my voice would be in a room packed with twenty others trying to find their voices." I was a big moralist about it, actually. I felt that if I was writing on my own, I didn't need a tutor, and that if I wasn't writing on my own, I didn't deserve one." Gilbert chose to pursue her own education through work and travel rather than attending graduate school.

Personal life

Gilbert wrote in a New York Times essay entitled "Confessions of a Seduction Addict" that she "careened from one intimate entanglement to the next"—dozens of them—without so much as a day off between romances." "Seduction was never a casual sport for me," she said, "it was more like a heist, adrenalizing, and pressing." I'll plan the heist for months, scouting the area for unguarded entries. "I will go into my deepest vault, take all his emotional wealth, and spend it on myself." "I may well win the guy eventually," she realized. However, his unquenchable infatuation for me would diminish as his focus returned to everyday concerns over time (and it won't take long). This made me feel abandoned and invisible; love that might not have been quenched was not nearly enough for me."

Gilbert was married to Michael Cooper, who was a student at the Coyote Ugly Saloon from 1994 to 2002. Gilbert left Cooper for another man, and the marriage came to an end.

Gilbert married José Nunes, who she met in Bali while on the travels she describes in Eat, Pray, Love. Gilbert and Nunes lived in Frenchtown, New Jersey,; together they owned Two Buttons, a large Asian import store, until it was sold in 2015.

Gilbert and Nunes' separation was "very amicable" on her Facebook page on July 1, 2016, she said. Gilbert wrote a Facebook post on September 7, 2016 a woman best friend, writer Rayya Elias, was in a relationship with her female best friend, and that it was a result of her marriage breakdown. Following Elias' terminal cancer diagnosis, Gilbert realized she felt for Elias. The two families tied the knot on June 6, 2017 with close family and friends. The marriage was not legally binding. Elias died on January 4, 2018.

Gilbert revealed on Instagram on March 25, 2019 that she was in a relationship with United Kingdom-born photographer Simon MacArthur, who was also a close friend of Elias. In an interview in February 2020, she said that she and MacArthur were no longer together, describing the friendship as "short lived."

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Career

Gilbert left Philadelphia and worked as a waitress or bartender to save up enough money to travel. Gilbert wrote in a New York Times interview that she was influenced by Ernest Hemingway's early career and his short story collection, In Our Time. Gilbert believed that writers discover stories not in a seminar room, but instead by traveling the world. While storing up recipes for her writing, she held down positions as a trail cook, bartender, and waitress.

Gilbert's short story "Pilgrims" appeared in Esquire in 1993 under the heading "The Debut of an American Writer." She was the first unpublished short story writer to debut in Esquire since Norman Mailer. This led to steady publication as a journalist for a variety of national newspapers, including Spin, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Allure, Real Simple, and Travel + Leisure. Gilbert, as described in the book Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert, began as a highly paid freelance writer.

Gilbert's book "The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon," a memoir of Gilbert's stint as a bartender at the very first Coyote Ugly table dancing bar in New York City's East Village section, was the basis for Coyote Ugly Ugly Bartender. (2000) In The Last American Man, she turned her 1998 GQ article "The Last American Man" into a history of the modern woodsman and naturalist Eustace Conway. Hank Williams III's biography, "The Ghost," was published in Best American Magazine Writing 2001.

Pilgrims, Gilbert's first book (Houghton Mifflin 1997), a collection of short stories, received the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Stern Men (Houghton Mifflin 2000), a "Notable Book" in The New York Times, was followed by her book Stern Men (Houghton Mifflin 2000). She wrote The Last American Man, 2002, which was nominated for the National Book Award in non-fiction.

Gilbert published Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything in Italy, India, and Indonesia in 2006, a chronicle of her year of "spiritual and personal discovery" while traveling abroad. Since pitching the concept in a book plan, she funded her world travel for the book with a $200,000 publisher's advance. Some writers have characterized the best-seller as "priv-lit" ("a literature of privilege") and a "calculated corporate decision." In the spring of 2006, the memoir debuted on the New York Times best Seller list of nonfiction and was still number one on the list 88 weeks later, in October 2008. On August 13, 2010, it was chosen for a Columbia Pictures film starring Julia Roberts as Gilbert. Gilbert appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007 and has returned to the show to further discuss the book, her philosophy, and the film. According to Time magazine's "one of the world's top 100 people" and ranked on Oprah's SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders, she was named one of the world's top 100 people.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, Gilbert's fifth book, was published by Viking Press in January 2010. In the sense that it takes up Gilbert's life tale where her bestseller left off, it is a bit of a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love. Gilbert's decision to marry Jose Nunes (also referred to in the book as Felipe), a Brazilian man she encountered in Manu, Indonesia, was also revealed by the commissioner. The book is an examination of marriage from many historical and modern perspectives, including those of people who are reluctant to marry, particularly women. Gilbert also includes chapters on same-sex marriage in the book, as well as interracial marriages dating back to the 1970s.

She republished At Home on the Range, a 1947 cookbook written by her great-grandmother, food columnist Margaret Yardley Potter, in 2012. In 2013, Gilbert published her second book, The Signature of All Things, in 2013.

Gilbert wrote Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear in 2015, a self-help book that gives tips on how to live a life as vibrant as hers. The book is divided into six sections: Courage, Enchantment, Permission, Permission, Permission, Perception, Trust, and Divinity. Among other items, Big Magic's advice focuses on overcoming self-doubt, avoiding perfection, and agenda setting. Gilbert continued her magic with her Magic Lessons podcast, in which she interviews well-known writers such as Brene Brown and Sarah Jones.

According to a review of Big Magic in Slate, the majority of the book is factual, but it does say, "Gilbert comes bearing news from a new world where untold splendors are waiting for those brave and hard-working enough to claim them." How many people will be able to follow her trail is uncertain." "Funny, perceptive, and full of down-to-earth advice," the Seattle Times described the book as "funny, perceptive, and full of down-to-earth advice."

"I am a writer today because I discovered to love reading as a child," Gilbert said in several interviews, quoting the Oz books. Marcus Aurelilius' Meditations is her favorite book on philosophy, according to her. When she took over Jack Gilbert as a writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee in 2006, she also named him "the poet laureate of my life."

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