Kingsblood Royal

Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis (Random House, 1947; later reprints by Signet and Penguin) is a satirical novel exploring race and identity in mid?20th?century America. The story follows Neil Kingsblood, a middle?class white man in Minnesota, who discovers that he has African ancestry. This revelation disrupts his comfortable life, exposing the hypocrisy, prejudice, and rigid racial boundaries of American society.