My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

Independently published · 2021

A novel of the ancient world that reimagines the man known to Christian tradition as Saul of Tarsus, later Paul the Apostle. Framed by Paul’s imprisonment in Rome, the story looks back on the person he was before his transformation — his early life, education, relationships, religious convictions, and the persecution that preceded his change. Part of Lin Wilder’s ancient-world series alongside I, Claudia and The Reluctant Queen.

My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World approaches one of the most consequential figures in religious history through the tools of fiction. Using a framing narrative in which Paul is imprisoned in Rome, the novel looks back on the man he was before his transformation — exploring Saul’s early life, education, relationships, convictions, and the persecution of early Christians that preceded his change.

The title points directly toward the book’s central question of identity: not the finished apostle of Christian tradition, but the human being behind him, confronting loyalty, belief, and change. Operating at the intersection of historical fiction, religious fiction, and character-driven storytelling, it is a novel rather than a biography — history provides the framework, faith provides a central theme, and character is the vehicle through which the reader encounters the story.