After more than five years of sending out work for publication and collecting only rejection letters, Elizabeth Gilbert  finally broke onto the literary scene in 1993, when one of her short stories was pulled from the slush pile at Esquire magazine and published under the heading “The Debut of an American Writer.”

She has since written 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

Official Elizabeth Gilbert website.