Eat, pray, love

Biography of the author

Elizabeth Gilbert was born on July 18, 1969 in Connecticut, U.S.A. and she is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her memoir “ Eat, pray, love” which was published in more than 30 languages and has sold over 12 million copies. The book was also made into a film in 2010. 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.
But going back, as a child Gilbert’s entertainment was writing books and plays, because her family did not own a television or a record player. Gilbert attended New York University and after college she moved to Philadelphia and worked as a waitress to save up enough money to travel. And an interesting fact is that she financed her world travel of "spiritual and personal exploration” and making of the book with a $200,000 publisher's advance after pitching the concept in a book proposal. …