Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear - Hardcover

Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and several other internationally bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction. Gilbert began her career writing for Harper's Bazaar, Spin, The New York Times Magazine and GQ, and was a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The follow-up memoir Committed became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her latest novel, The Signature of All Things, was named a Best Book of 2013 by The New York Times, O Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The New Yorker. Gilbert’s short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Story, One Story, and the Paris Review.
From the Hardcover edition.

Praise for Eat Pray Love:
 
“Gilbert’s prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible.”—Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review

“A meditation on love in its many forms ... her extraordinary journey lets even the most cynical reader dare to dream.” – Los Angeles Times
 
Praise for The Signature of All Things:
 
“A bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.”– Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review
 
“Raucously ingenious...Signature is not just a historical novel that spans two centuries and many geographies.  It’s a 500-page novel of ideas...I found unshackled joy on every page.” -- The Chicago Tribune
                                                                     
“A delightful book...one of the best of the year...Gilbert marries the technical, cultural and spiritual with a warm, frankly funny wit that adds richness to all three.”– “All Things Considered,” NPR
 
 
 
From the Hardcover edition.