AGE: 38
OCCUPATION: Author of Eat, Pray, Love
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: Eat — Gilbert's bestselling memoir of her questing, alliterative year abroad in Italy, India and Indonesia after an awful divorce — has moved beyond mere popular confessional: it's a de facto spiritual tract. And also soon to be a movie starring Julia Roberts.
CON: What do you do for an encore? Annulment and Antarctica, starring Amy Adams?