Born in 1969, Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author, best known for her memoir, 'Eat, Pray, Love' which came out in 2006. The book was a best seller in the United States and sold well in many other parts of the English-speaking world, too. In 2010, 'Eat, Pray, Love' gained a much wider audience when it was adapted into a screenplay and produced as a movie starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. The story focusses on Gilbert's spiritual crossroads. She has everything – seemingly – that she could want but knows there is more to life. Recently divorced, she travels to Italy, India and then Indonesia. In Italy, she learns to appreciate food culture, followed by a spiritual awakening in India and then she falls in love on the third leg of her journey – hence the memoir's title.
