Helene Wecker

Helene Deborah Wecker (born September 1975) is an American writer, author of the Mythopoeic Award-winning historical fantasy novel The Golem and the Jinni and its sequel, The Hidden Palace.

Biography Wecker was born and raised in Libertyville, a northern suburb of Chicago. After graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in English from Carleton College, she worked in marketing and communications in Minneapolis and Seattle before "deciding to return to her first love, fiction writing." Moving to New York, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. Wecker said in 2021 that while she was not "100% certain" about further sequels, she plans to write a third book in the series.