Elisabeth Gilbert

Elisabeth Gilbert is an author and a world-renowned speaker. As an author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elisabeth has thought long and hard about some large topics. Her next fascination: genius, and how we ruin it.

Elisabeth faced down a premidlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of – running off for a year. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home.

Shes a longtime magazine writer – covering music and politics for Spin and GQ – as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man.