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In 2010, Elizabeth published a follow-up to Eat Pray Love calledĬommitted„a memoir which explored her ambivalent feelings about the The book became so popular that Time Magazine named ElizabethĪs one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Translated into over thirty languages, with over 10 million copies soldĮat Pray Love was made into a film starring Julia The book was an international bestseller, Which chronicled her journey alone around the world, looking for solaceĪfter a difficult divorce.

This book, her first work of non-fiction, was aįinalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book CriticsĮlizabeth is best known, however for her 2006 memoir Eat Pray Love, The Last American Man _ the true story of the modern day In 2000, Elizabeth published her first novel, Stern Men(a story of brutal territory wars between two remote fishing islands off the coast of Maine) which was a New York Times Notable Book. Was a three-time finalist for The National Magazine Award, and anĪrticle she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending on the LowerĮast Side eventually became the basis for the movie Coyote Ugly. PEN/Hemingway award, and which moved Annie Proulx to call her ña youngĭuring these early years in New York, she also worked as a journalistįor such publications as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. These explorations eventually formed the basis of her first book _ a She spent several years traveling around the country, working in bars,ĭiners and ranches, collecting experiences to transform into fiction. Science by day and worked on her short stories by night. She attended New York University, where she studied political Waterbury, Connecticut in 1969, and grew up on a small family Christmas

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