Joan of Arc did not die at the stake for God or feminism: "She was a soldier". Asian American writer Katherine J.

Chen says she fantasized about writing a novel about the life of Jesus of Nazareth when Joan of Arc crossed her path. Chen wrote a 200,000-word draft that he threw in the trash. But the second time she understood what it was that didn't convince him about the standard view of what happened and what she could offer in her place.