She was a three-time finalist for The National Magazine Award, and an article she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending on the Lower East Side eventually became the basis for the movie COYOTE UGLY. These explorations eventually formed the basis of her first book – a short story collection called PILGRIMS, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and which moved Annie Proulx to call her “a young writer of incandescent talent”.ĭuring these early years in New York, she also worked as a journalist for such publications as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. After college, she spent several years traveling around the country, working in bars, diners and ranches, collecting experiences to transform into fiction. She attended New York University, where she studied political science by day and worked on her short stories by night. Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1969, and grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm.
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