Birthright (Novel), Wayne, NJ
Birthright explores through a realist—and hopefully revolutionary—lens the violent world of Arthuriana. The work focuses on the complex sibling dynamic between Morgan le Fay and King Arthur.
“My hope is this work will not only revitalize but also challenge and change the way we read Arthurian legend and literature. The novel tackles nation-building and what it means to create a nation.”
Katherine J. Chen is the author of Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc (Random House US / Hodder & Stoughton UK), which won the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and Mary B (Random House US). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, and other publications, with forthcoming work elsewhere. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Boston University’s MFA program in Fiction and is pursuing her doctoral degree in English at Brown University. Currently, she is at work on her next book, which is under contract with Random House.