Eat pray love author biography for book

2006 book by Elizabeth Gilbert

This article is about the memoir.

Eat pray love author biography for book

For the film adaptation, see Eat Pray Love.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels.

She wrote and named the book while living at The Oliver Hotel on the downtown square in Knoxville, TN. The book remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 187 weeks.^[1] The film version, which stars Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, was released in theaters on August 13, 2010.^[2]

Gilbert followed up this book with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, released through Viking in January 2010.

It covered her life after Eat, Pray, Love, plus an exploration of the concept of marriage.^[3]

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