For Release: 2009-03-09 12:55:00
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia, is the next featured guest on Kentucky Author Forum Presents, airing Monday, March 23 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET1 and Monday, March 30 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET2.Gilbert is interviewed by ZZ Packer, author of the short-story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. The two discuss the bestseller as well as her soon-to-be-reissued debut novel, Stern Men.
Gilbert's experience as a writer traverses many genres. She has written for publications as varied as GQ, The New York Times, SPIN and Travel & Leisure. Her short story collection, Pilgrims, received a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She adapted her GQ article on Eustace Conway into a biography of the naturalist, The Last American Man, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in non-fiction.
She also appears in "The 2008 TIME 100: The World's Most Influential People" and the film rights to Eat, Pray, Love have been sold to Paramount.
Born in Chicago and raised in Atlanta and Louisville, Packer is a 1990 graduate of Louisville's Seneca High School. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was included in the New Yorker's Debut Fiction issue in 2000 and was a New York Times Notable Book and a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist.
Kentucky Author Forum Presents "Great Conversations: Elizabeth Gilbert and ZZ Packer" is a KET production. The director is Carl Babcock, producer is Tom Bickell and Teresa Day serves as executive producer. The author's appearance in Louisville was produced by the Kentucky Author Forum (Mary Moss Greenebaum, producer) and sponsored by the University of Louisville, in partnership with Brown-Forman and The Humana Foundation. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.
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