Elizabeth Gilbert

Overview

Elizabeth Gilbert is the bestselling author of ten books—including Eat Pray Love and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear—which altogether have sold over 25 million copies worldwide, per her official bio at elizabethgilbert.com. Eat Pray Love (2006) chronicled her solo journey through Italy, India, and Indonesia after a difficult divorce; it sold more than 12 million copies, was translated into over thirty languages, and became a film starring Julia Roberts. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Her personal development signature for SUCCESS readers is creative living and self-reinvention: Big Magic teaches joyful, fear-resistant creativity, and her TED Talk on genius and creativity has drawn tens of millions of views. Later work includes the memoir Committed, novels The Signature of All Things and City of Girls, and the 2025 memoir All the Way to the River (an Oprah’s Book Club pick and instant New York Times bestseller).

Why SUCCESS readers care

Gilbert is a defining voice on personal transformation, creativity beyond fear, and living with intention.

Proof points

• Ten books; 25M+ copies sold worldwide (official bio)
• Eat Pray Love: 12M+ copies; film adaptation; Time 100
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (2015) — creativity and permission beyond fear
• TED speaker on genius, creativity, and getting out of your own way
• Recent: All the Way to the River — Oprah’s Book Club; instant NYT bestseller