Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert

Whether you're on a quest for a more magical and creative life beyond fear, or simply journeying for journeys sake, there's wisdom and joy to be found in Elizabeth Gilbert's popular audiobooks...
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Elizabeth Gilbert is the internationally best-selling author of books including Eat Pray Love published in 2009. The book became a breakout success and was adapted for film. The Eat Pray Love movie stars Julia Roberts. There is more than ten million copies of Eat Pray Love in print and the book was on the New York Times best-seller list for more than 200 weeks.

Since Eat Pray Love Gilbert has gone on to publish another three books. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage was published in 2010 and became an immediate #1 New York Times Bestseller, The Signature of All Things came out in in 2013 and was described by Oprah’s O Magazine as “the novel of a lifetime”, and then in 2015 came Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear.

Big Magic expands on the theme of creativity that Gilbert explored in her popular 2009 TED Talk. Big Magic is an empowering book and an invitation to a world of wonder, soulful living, and fearless creativity – you can listen to Big Magic on Audible narrated by Elizabeth Gilbert.

In addition to the popular books for which Gilbert is most renowned, she is also the author of Pilgrims (a short story collection), Stern Men (Gilbert’s debut novel), and The Last American Man (a biography of Eustace Conway). Pilgrims was published in 1997 – it earned Gilbert the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award. The Last American Man, published in 2002, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Gilbert has contributed to a half dozen books and provided an introduction to Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Best-Selling Memoir.

Before becoming an author Gilbert studied political science at New York University after which she wrote for publications including Spin, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. An article Gilbert wrote for GQ about her experience bartending at a bar in New York served as inspiration for the 2000 film Coyote Ugly. Gilbert was born 18 July 1969 in Connecticut.
Eat Pray Love is the story one woman’s transformative journey around the world in search of fulfillment. Time magazine described Eat Pray Love as “an engaging, intelligent and entertaining memoir”. At the beginning of the book we find Gilbert despairing – despite her marriage, home, and career, she is left wanting. And so we follow her around the world: to eat in Italy, to pray in India, to love in Indonesia. Join Elizabeth Gilbert on her journey toward meaning and fulfillment with the Eat Pray Love audiobook, read for you by the author herself – start listening to the Eat Pray Love audiobook. Can’t get enough? Hear the stories of those so inspired by Eat Pray Love that they set out on their own quests – Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Best-Selling Memoir.

After the massive success of Eat Pray Love in 2006, Gilbert delivered a TED Talk titled ‘Your elusive creative genius’. In the TED Talk Gilbert discusses creative work and explains how she confronted the challenge of writing after the success of Eat Pray Love, “It’s exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me,” she said. The talk has been viewed more than 12 million times.

Audiobook Review — Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert