About Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author and writer. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010 has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and was also made into a film by the same name in 2010. In an interview, Gilbert mentioned The Wizard of Oz with nostalgia, adding, I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child—and mostly on account of the Oz books... She is especially vocal about the importance of Charles Dickens to her, mentioning his stylistic influence on her writing in many interviews. She lists Marcus Aurelius' Meditations as her favorite book on philosophy.Browse all poems and texts published on Elizabeth Gilbert
Gilbert's first book Pilgrims, a collection of short stories, received the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. This was followed by her novel Stern Men (Houghton Mifflin 2000), selected by The New York Times as a "Notable Book."
