She resisted taking literature classes and writing workshops and stated in an interview, "I never thought that the best place for me to find my voice would be in a room filled with twenty other people trying to find their voices. That's a Venn diagram that doesn't include anyone else." Gilbert has said that her parents were not hippies but modern pioneers, "My parents are the only people I've ever known who made their own goat's-milk yogurt and voted for Reagan twice. Consequently, the family read a great deal, and Gilbert and her older sister Catherine Gilbert Murdock entertained themselves by writing books and plays. The family lived in the country with no neighbors they did not own a television or record player.
When Gilbert was four, her parents bought a Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her father, John Gilbert, was a chemical engineer at Uniroyal her mother, Carole, was a nurse and established a Planned Parenthood clinic. Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1969. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. Elizabeth Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American journalist and author.
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