Sibella Giorello received a degree in geology from Mount Holyoke College and spent ten years as a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Her first novel, was "The Stones Cry Out." She has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the daughter of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, and was leaning more toward Judaism when she ended up at a Pentecostal camp on a feature story assignment. It was there that she says she realized that Christianity is a Jewish religion and that Jesus really is the Messiah.