Sonia Taitz is an essayist, playwright and author of Mothering Heights. She has written extensively for The New York Times, served a columnist for The New York Observer and been excerpted by O: The Oprah Magagazine, leading to inclusion in many quotation anthologies. Her plays have been performed in Oxford, England; New York City, and Washington, D.C., at the National Theatre. People has described Sonia Taitz as "an incisive, funny writer," and Publisher's Weekly as "wise and witty." She is the recipient of the Lord Bullock Prize for Writing, given by the Chancellor of Oxford University. In the King's Arms is her first novel.