ELIZABETH ROSNER Crime: Religious Disobedience Elizabeth Rosner is the author of two bestselling novels, both published by Ballantine Books. Her highly acclaimed first novel The Speed Of Light (2001) won several literary prizes in both the US and Europe, including the Harold U. Ribalow Prize and the Prix France Bleu Gironde. It was translated into nine languages and optioned for a feature film by Gillian Anderson. Her second novel Blue Nude was published in May 2006, and a related essay appeared in the New York Times Magazine. She is also an award-winning poet whose chapbook Gravity is currently in its 13th printing. She lives in Berkeley, California. www.elizabethrosner.com.