Elizabeth Gilbert, Biography, Husband, Big Magic, Books, Eat,Pray,Love, Michael Cooper,Ted Talks

August 2024 · 8 minute read

Elizabeth Gilbert Biography

Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which had spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and which was also made into a film by the same name in 2010. She was born 18th July 1969 in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Elizabeth Gilbert Age/Family

Elizabeth was born on July 18th, 1969 ( 49 years old as of 2018 ) She was born to John Gibert a chemical engineer and Carole Gilbert a housewife. Elizabeth is of Swedish descent along with her only sister Catherine Gilbert Murdock.

Elizabeth Gilbert Husband/Kids

Elizabeth got married to Michael Cooper whom she met while working at Coyote Ugly Saloon. They got married in 1994 and divorced in 2002. Elizabeth later came to be married by Jose Nunes whom she met in Bali. They got married in 2007 and later got divorced as she claimed she had feelings for her best friend. Her best friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer and later died on January 4th, 2018.  On March 25th, 2019 Elizabeth posted on Instagram that she was in a relationship with Simon MacArthur whose a photographer.  Elizabeth doesn’t have any kids.

Elizabeth Gilbert Early Life

Elizabeth grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. The family lived in the country with no neighbors; they did not own a television or record player. Consequently, the family read a great deal, and Gilbert and her sister entertained themselves by writing books and plays.

Elizabeth got a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from New York University in 1991. She then worked as a cook, bartender, a waitress, and a magazine employee. She wrote her experience as a cook on a dude ranch in short stories and also in her book The Last American Man.

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Elizabeth Gilbert Career

Esquire published Elizabeth’s short story “Pilgrims” in 1993, under the headline “The Debut of an American Writer”. She was the first unpublished short story writer to debut in Esquire since Norman Mailer. This led to steady work as a journalist for a variety of national magazines, including SPIN, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Allure, Real Simple, and Travel + Leisure. As stated in the memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert made a career as a highly paid freelance writer.

In 1997 her GQ article The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon which was a memoir of Elizabeth`s time as a bartender at the first Coyote Ugly table dancing bar. Its located in East Village at a section of New York. It was the basis for the film Coyote Ugly (2000). She adapted her 1998 GQ article, “The Last American Man”, into a biography of the modern woodsman and naturalist Eustace Conway in The Last American Man.

Elizabeth`s first book Pilgrims was a collection of short stories. She received the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. It was then followed by next novel Stern Men which was selected by The New York Times as Notable Book.  2002, she published The Last American Man (2002), which was nominated for National Book Award in non-fiction.

2006 she published Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman`s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia. She financed her world travel for the book with a $200,000 publisher’s advance after pitching the concept in a book proposal. The best-seller has been critiqued by some writers as “priv-lit” and a “calculated business decision.”

The memoir appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List of nonfiction in the spring of 2006, and was still #2 on the list 88 weeks later, in October 2008. It was optioned for a film by Columbia Pictures, which released Eat Pray Love, which starred  Julia Roberts as Elizabeth, on August 13, 2010.

Elizabeth has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007 and has reappeared on the show to further discuss the book, her philosophy, and the film. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine and named to Oprah’s Super Soul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders.

Elizabeth then wrote her fifth book, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage which was released by Viking Press in January. It was somewhat a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love in that it takes up Elizabeth’s life story where her bestseller left off. Committed also reveals Gilbert’s decision to marry Jose Nunes (referred to in the book as Felipe), a Brazilian man she met in Indonesia.

The book is an examination of the institution of marriage from several historical and modern perspectives—including those of people, particularly women, reluctant to marry. In the book, Elizabeth also includes perspectives on same-sex marriage and compares this to interracial marriage prior to the 1970s.

2012, she republished At Home on the Range, a 1947 cookbook written by her great-grandmother, the food columnist Margaret Yardley Potter. Elizabeth then published her second novel in 2013, The Signature of All Things.

2015 Elizabeth published Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, a self-help book that provides instructions on how to live a life as creative as hers. The book was broken down into six sections: Courage, Enchantment, Permission, Persistence, Trust, and Divinity. The book advices one to focus on overcoming self-doubt avoiding perfectionism, and agenda setting, among other topics. Elizabeth continued with her book by giving lessons on her podcast which she interviews famous creatives such as Brene Brown and Sarah Jones.

Elizabeth mentioned in an interview that she is a writer today because she loved reading as a child mostly the Oz books. She was influenced by Charles Dickens. She even identified Marcus Aurelius`s Meditations as her favorite book in philosophy. She further declared that Jack Gilbert as the poet laureate her life.

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic

2015 Elizabeth published Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, a self-help book that provides instructions on how to live a life as creative as hers. The book was broken down into six sections: Courage, Enchantment, Permission, Persistence, Trust, and Divinity. The book advices one to focus on overcoming self-doubt avoiding perfectionism, and agenda setting, among other topics. Elizabeth continued with her book by giving lessons on her podcast which she interviews famous creatives such as Brene Brown and Sarah Jones.

Elizabeth Gilbert Books

Elizabeth Gilbert Jose Nunes

Elizabeth was to be married by Jose Nunes whom she met in Bali. They got married in 2007 and later got divorced as she claimed she had feelings for her best friend.

Elizabeth Gilbert  Michael Cooper

Michael Cooper was Elizabeth first husband whom she met while working at Coyote Ugly Saloon. They got married in 1994 and divorced in 2002.

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Elizabeth Gilbert TedTalks

Elizabeth Gilbert Rayya Elias

Elias was Elizabeth`s best friend who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The two celebrated their commitment ceremony with friends and family. Elias died on January 4th, 2018.

Elizabeth Gilbert Eat Pray Love

2006 she published Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman`s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. She financed her world travel for the book with a $200,000 publisher’s advance after pitching the concept in a book proposal. The best-seller has been critiqued by some writers as “priv-lit” and a “calculated business decision.”The memoir appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List of nonfiction in the spring of 2006, and was still #2 on the list 88 weeks later, in October 2008. It was optioned for a film by Columbia Pictures, which released Eat Pray Love, which starred  Julia Roberts as Elizabeth, on August 13, 2010.

Elizabeth Gilbert Committed

Elizabeth wrote her fifth book, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage which was released by Viking Press in January. It was somewhat a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love in that it takes up Elizabeth’s life story where her bestseller left off. Committed also reveals Gilbert’s decision to marry Jose Nunes (referred to in the book as Felipe), a Brazilian man she met in Indonesia.

Elizabeth Gilbert Networth

Elizabeth Gilbert who is the author of the book Eat, Pray, Love has a net worth of 25 million dollars.

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