SoJ Web Report | Sept. 4, 2008
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, visits campus Monday to start off the fall Speaker Series with a lecture at 7 p.m. Monday at the IU Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.A best-seller, Eat, Pray, Love is the the story of the year she spent traveling around the world in search of personal restoration after a difficult divorce.
Gilbert also wrote The Last American Man, which explores America’s long-standing intrigue with a luxury-free, pioneer lifestyle and was nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Gilbert has written for GQ, Spin, Harpers Bazaar and The New York Times Magazine. Her first article for GQ, "The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon," chronicled her experience as a waitress at the New York City bar of the same name, and was the basis for the 2000 motion picture, Coyote Ugly.
Read more about Gilbert at her Web site.
