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Elizabeth Gilbert

August 2025

  • Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, in red sleeveless boiler suit, standing in a kitchen

    Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert on leaving her marriage for a dying friend: ‘She said, Let’s just live balls to the wall until I die!’

    One was a happily married and internationally famous writer, the other a cool, funny hairdresser and ex-drug addict. Then a shock diagnosis pitched them into an intense love affair ...

March 2020

  • Author Elizabeth Gilbert<br>TORONTO, ON - August 15: Author Elizabeth Gilbert speaks about life after Eat, Pray, Love, the book which brought her fame and fortune. Gilbert was in Toronto, August 15, 2013.

    Books that made me
    Elizabeth Gilbert: ‘Don’t we all wish we’d written Wolf Hall?’

    The bestselling author on her love of Tove Jansson, trying to read Ulysses and why we shouldn’t ‘book-shame’