Elizabeth Rosner
Elizabeth Rosner is a bestselling novelist, poet, and essayist living in Berkeley, California. Her newest book of non-fiction, SURVIVOR CAFÉ: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, was featured on NPR’s "All Things Considered" and in The New York Times; it was also a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. Her three acclaimed novels have been translated into nine languages and have received prizes in the US and in Europe. A graduate of Stanford University, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Queensland in Australia, she has been leading writing workshops internationally for more than 25 years.
Elizabeth can be found at elizabethrosner.com.
Charitable Organization: Doctors Without Borders
Praise
“Rosner’s memoir, which combines moving personal narrative with illuminating research into the impact of mass trauma on a personal and cultural scale, is imbued with urgency, sincerity, heartache, and heart.” —San Francisco Chronicle, 1 of 100 Best Books of 2017
“Mixing the personal with the historical and the literary with the scholarly, Rosner achieves a breathtaking overview of events as varied as the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the Rwandan genocide, and Japanese American internment. Her impressive, highly readable Survivor Café takes on important issues of atrocity, trauma, and memory, rendering them all with such great clarity and intimacy that the reader will not soon forget them, or this powerful book.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer
"Survivor Café...feels like the book Rosner was born to write. Each page is imbued with urgency, with sincerity, with heartache, with heart.... Her words, alongside the words of other survivors of atrocity and their descendants across the globe, can help us build a more humane world." —San Francisco Chronicle
"A HAUNTING TALE OF TIMELESS SECRETS AND TIMELY SALVATION… A spellbinding tribute to the revelations that redeem us and the emotions that ennoble us."
–Booklist (boxed and starred review of The Speed of Light)
