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Elizabeth Gilbert

(b.1969)
Sister of Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm. From earliest memory, all she ever wanted to do was write. It is quite possibly genetic: Her sister, Catherine Gilbert Murdock, also became a writer, and is today the author of such beloved young adult novels as DAIRY QUEEN and PRINCESS BEN.

Elizabeth Gilbert lives in rural New Jersey with her husband, her garden, and far too many beloved pets. She is at work on a new novel.

Series

Family Snapshots
The Finest Wife (2013)

Novels

Stern Men (2000)
The Signature of All Things (2013)
City of Girls (2019)

Collections

Pilgrims (1997)
The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert (2010)

Non fiction

The Last American Man (2002)
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Committed (2009)
At Home on the Range (2012) (with Margaret Yardley Potter)
The Best American Travel Writing 2013 (2013)
Big Magic (2015)
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It (2016)
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It / Committed / Eat, Pray, Love (2018)

Elizabeth Gilbert recommends

The Observations (2006)
Jane Harris
"The Observations is a deliriously captivating tale of sex, ghosts, lies, and mysteries. But that’s not the good part; the good part is our narrator Betsy, a fifteen-year-old Irish made living in Scotland with the freshest, sharpest, naughtiest, and most charming voice you’re apt to encounter in literature in a good long time. I adored her and couldn’t put her story down."

Try (2006)
Lily Burana
"My God, it's refreshing to read a novel as good and rank and honest as Try."

The Butterflies of Grand Canyon (2009)
Margaret Erhart
"I found many delights on these pages."

The Typist (2010)
Michael Knight
"The Typist is Knight's best book yet. It reads with a combination of urgency and a quiet, rush-less pace to the novel's slow reveal. There is not a misstep, not a mislaid sentence. I believed and breathed every single word. This book awed me."

Your Voice in My Head (2011)
Emma Forrest
"Unforgettable... I can't remember the last time I ever read such a blistering, transfixing story."

Gone (2012)
Cathi Hanauer
"You will see yourself in these pages, and your heart will open wide."

Heaven is Paved with Oreos (2013)
(Dairy Queen, book 4)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
"My sister's novel is a love letter to growing up, to Rome, and to family. I adored reading it."

Friendswood (2014)
René Steinke
"Steinke's sense of this small Texas town, with its explosive and interconnected lives and deaths, is absolutely masterful."

Lake Success (2018)
Gary Shteyngart
"Stupendous... Reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute... I barked with laughter at the same time as wincing in pain."

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