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Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Raised—near Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Education—B.A., Carleton College; M.F.A.,
Columbia University
• Currently—lives near San Francisco, California
Helene Wecker grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago, and received her Bachelor’s in English from Carleton College in Minnesota. After graduating, she worked a number of marketing and communications jobs in Minneapolis and Seattle before deciding to return to her first love, fiction writing. Accordingly, she moved to New York to pursue a Master’s in fiction at Columbia University. She now lives near San Francisco with her husband and daughter. The Golem and the Jinni is her first novel. (From the author's website.)