Join me as we examine the file of Elizabeth Gilbert, writer … About the writer … Gilbert took a breather from her latest book tour to stop by The Writer Files and share her secret to “getting it done,” explain why perfect is the enemy of good, and drop her unique definition of creativity on us. Let’s face it, few bestselling authors can also say they’ve been portrayed in a Hollywood film by an Academy Award winner (it was Julia Roberts if you were sleeping that year). Gilbert has punched her way to becoming a heavyweight wordsmith.Īnd if her intimidating record in the ring isn’t enough, set aside 19 minutes of your life to absorb the TED talk she did on finding your “ creative genius.” Throw in her radiant new novel, The Signature of All Things, that TIME recently named one of the “ 10 best books of 2013,” and you have a true marvel.įrom her early days in the cutthroat journalism trade, writing copy for the likes of GQ and the New York Times Magazine, to her wildly successful memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Ms. “Almost a football field.Very few writers, regardless of their specialty, can claim the honors of a National Book Award nomination, a hat-trick of National Magazine Award nods, and a #1 New York Times Bestseller, all to their credit. But Gilbert recently called me to tell me that after more than five years of intensive rehabilitation she was able to take her first steps with the aid of a walker. Doctors thought she would never walk again. Shortly before Willingham’s execution in February, 2004, Gilbert was in a car accident and was paralyzed from the neck down. She began to investigate his case, revealing disturbing flaws in the evidence used to convict him and raising the prospect that he was innocent. A poet and school teacher, Gilbert had gotten to know Willingham when he was on Death Row for allegedly setting a fire that killed his three children. One of the most compelling and indomitable characters I encountered was Elizabeth Gilbert, who was a subject of my New Yorker story “ Trial by Fire,” about the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham-a story that is included in my book. In researching the stories for my new book, “ The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession,” I’ve spent time with con men, cold killers, squid hunters, sandhogs, a death squad real-estate agent, arson sleuths, Sherlock Holmes fanatics, a baseball icon, an imposter, F.B.I.
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