In Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert distills the powerful actions anyone can take to live a more creative life. This isn't a book just for "creatives" such as artists and writers. In a conversational style and confiding tone, Gilbert encourages anyone hoping to live a creative life to uncover the "strange jewels" that are hidden within each of us, embrace our curiosity, and let go of crushing self-doubts and inhibitions. Along with sharing inspiring personal stories, she details the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Equal parts imaginative and practical, Big Magic provides a blueprint for living more creatively day to day and finding more fulfillment in creative work.
Published in 2015, Big Magic was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller and received widely positive reviews. Gilbert narrates the audiobook herself.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author and journalist. She is best known for her 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love, which chronicled her journey alone around the world, looking for solace after a difficult divorce. The book was a New York Times and international bestseller, translated into more than 30 languages, with over 12 million copies sold worldwide. In 2010, Eat Pray Love was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. The book became so popular that TIME magazine named Gilbert as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Born on July 18, 1969, in Waterbury, Connecticut, Gilbert grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm. She attended New York University, studying political science by day and working on her short stories by night. After college, she spent several years traveling around the country, working in bars, diners and ranches, collecting experiences to transform into fiction. These explorations formed the basis of her first book, a short story collection called Pilgrims. It was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and won the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares.
During her early years in New York City, Gilbert worked as a journalist for such publications as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. 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.
In addition to Eat Pray Love and a follow-up memoir, Committed, Gilbert is the author of the The Last American Man (2002), the true story of the modern day woodsman Eustace Conway; the novels Stern Men (2000), The Signature of All Things (2013), and City of Girls (2019); and a guidebook to living life and approaching work more creatively, Big Magic (2015). Elizabeth Gilbert has narrated three of her audiobooks, Eat Pray Love, Committed, and Big Magic.
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