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She is a missionary who spent some years among the Waorani people in Ecudor and is a well-known Christian author and speaker. Her husband, Jim Elliot, was one of five men who made initial contact with the Waorani, then called Aucas, on January 6, 1956. Two days later Waorani returned and killed the five men.

Elisabeth Elliot went to the Waorani with Rachel Saint, sister of Nate Saint, another of the five, and learned the language with the help of Dayuma, a Waorani who had spent some time among the Quechuas. The Waoranis called her Gikari (Woodpecker).

Born Elisabeth Howard in Belgium, she had four brothers and one sister. She has lived in Germantown near Philadelphia and in New Jersey. Elliot studied classical Greek at Wheaton College where she met Jim Elliot. They married in 1953 in the city of Quito. Their daughter, Valerie (b. 1955), was 10 months old when her father was killed.

In 1969, Elisabeth married Addison Leitch, professor of theology at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts. Leitch died in 1973. She has since married Lars Gren. Elisabeth's brother, Thomas Howard, is also an author.

A movie telling the story of Mincayani, one of the Waorani that killed the five men, was made entitled "End of the Spear". It had a limited-release (Less than 1200 theatres) on January 20, 2006.