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.[1] 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."[2] Moving to New York, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.[2][1][3] Wecker currently resides near San Francisco with her husband and daughter.[2][1]
Literary career
Wecker's first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was published by HarperCollins in April 2013.[2] A sequel with the working title The Iron Season, along with a third novel, was sold in 2015 in a rumored seven-figure deal according to Publishers Weekly.[4] It was initially projected for release in 2018,[2] and was published on 8 June 2021 under the title The Hidden Palace.[5][6] Wecker said in 2021 that while she was not "100% certain" about further sequels, she plans to write a third book in the series.[7]