She is the author of five novels, including The Beheading Game (2006) and Vienna Triangle (2009), which appeared on bestseller lists in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times.
[6][7] Brenda Webster is the author of five novels: Sins of the Mothers,[8] Paradise Farm,[9] The Beheading Game,[10] Vienna Triangle,[11][12] and After Auschwitz: A Love Story.
[14] Set in the late 1960s, Vienna Triangle follows Kate, a graduate student in psychology at Columbia, as she meets the famed Freudian theorist Helene Deutsch and learns about both the earliest days of psychoanalysis, and her own family's mysterious past.
[21] She is also the co-editor of Hungry for Light: The Journal of Ethel Schwabacher, and wrote the introduction to the Signet Classics edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
[22][23] In addition to her novels, translations, and academic books and essays, Webster is a prolific author of fictional short stories.