Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Gilbert grew up in Connecticut, where her parents farm a Christmas tree school. Your big sister Catherine Murdock is also a writer. She received a bachelor 's degree in political science at New York University.

For the magazines Spin and Gentlemen's Quarterly ( GQ ), she worked as a columnist. The New York Bar Coyote Ugly she helped to great attention when she reported for GQ from their local experiences as a bartender. A sequel was the movie Coyote Ugly.

Her literary career began in 1993 when Esquire reprinted one of her short stories. In 1997, the volume of short stories appeared Pilgrims ( German: Elchgeflüster, 1999), which was awarded the Pushcart Prize. It was followed by the novel The Lobster War (Stern Men, 2000). The Last American Man, her biography of the nature adventurer Eustace Conway, made ​​it to the finals of the National Book Award in 2002 your travelogue Eat Pray Love ( subtitle of the German edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia). Of 2006, sold over seven million copies and was translated into over 30 languages. The book was made ​​into a film in 2010 starring Julia Roberts as Elizabeth in the lead role.

Elizabeth Gilbert lives after they lived for a time in Philadelphia, in the Hudson Valley.

Works

• Elchgeflüster ( Pilgrim, 1997)
• The Lobster War (Stern Men, 2000)
• The Last American Man ( The Last American Man, 2002)
• Eat Pray Love (2006)
• The vows. How I made my peace with marriage, from the English by Maria Mill, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0914-2, ( Committed 2010)
• The essence of things and love ( The Signature of All Things, 2013)