Born to Exile is a fantasy novel by author Phyllis Eisenstein, the first of her two Tales Of Alaric The Minstrel novels. It was originally published in 1978 by longtime U.S. specialty press Arkham House in a first edition trade hardcover of 4,148 copies; it has since been published in several mass-market paperback editions and again in hardcover in the UK. Portions of the novel were first serialized as individual shorter works through The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.