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The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose voices moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Dreyer, and Robert Bresson. Was she a divinely inspired saint A schizophrenic A demonically possessed heretic, as her persecutors and captors tried to proveEvery era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleanss extraordinary story in its own way, and inJoan of Arc A Life Transfigured,the superb novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan for our timea shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence during a brutally rigged ecclesiastical inquisition and in the face of her death by burning.