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Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author. Her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010.
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culture · American journalist and author (born 1969) · novelist · writer · essayist · journalist · also Elizabeth Gilbert, Gilbert
Born 18 July 1969 · Q231424
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘You learn how to be idiotic artists’: Gilbert & George on fame, rebellion and their mystery new collaborator
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir has raised eyebrows – but she always comes out on top | Emma Brockes
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The Guardian: All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert review – excruciating to read
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The Guardian: Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert on leaving her marriage for a dying friend: ‘She said, Let’s just live balls to the wall until I die!’
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: Elizabeth Gilbert is pulling a novel set in Russia from publication. That’s unsettling | Francine Prose
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The Guardian: Elizabeth Gilbert was ridiculed for shelving her Russia-set novel, but I quite admire her | Emma Brockes
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The Guardian: ‘Eat, pray, pander’: mixed reactions after Elizabeth Gilbert pulls Russia-set novel
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2020· 2 entries
Claimed: “Mail-in ballots arriving after Election Day will be thrown out.” — rated Partly False by USA Today.
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The Guardian: Elizabeth Gilbert: ‘Don’t we all wish we’d written Wolf Hall?’
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert review – hymn to female desire
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The Guardian: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert review – the glamour of New York
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert and Rayya Elias celebrate love in private ceremony
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert announces she is in a same-sex relationship
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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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2015· 5 entries
The Guardian: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert review – lessons in life from the Eat, Pray, Love author
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The Guardian: Elizabeth Gilbert: Chasing perfection is the enemy of all good things
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Gilbert and several other authors including Cheryl Strayed participated in fundraising efforts for Syrian refugees which raised over $1 million in 31 hours
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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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“careened from one intimate entanglement to the next—dozens of them—without so much as a day off between romances”
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2012· 1 entry
Republished At Home on the Range, a 1947 cookbook written by her great-grandmother, food columnist Margaret Yardley Potter
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2008· 1 entry
And in 2016 she was included in Oprah's SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders
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2007· 3 entries
And has reappeared on the show to further discuss the book, her philosophy, and the film
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In 2007, Gilbert married José Nunes, whom she had met in Bali while on the travels she describes in Eat, Pray, Love.
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Gilbert married José Nunes, whom she had met in Bali while on the travels she describes in Eat, Pray, Love
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2006· 1 entry
Gilbert published Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Viking, 2006), a chronicle of her year of "spiritual and personal exploration" spent traveling abroad
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2002· 1 entry
Published The Last American Man (2002), which was nominated for the National Book Award in non-fiction
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2000· 1 entry
Was included in Best American Magazine Writing 2001
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Plimpton Prize (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Under the headline "The Debut of an American Writer"
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1969· 1 entry
Born 1969-07-18.
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