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About Helene Wecker

Wecker is a gifted new voice.
— Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post
 
She has a historian’s grasp of detail and a novelist’s flair.
— Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News

Helene Wecker’s first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award. A Midwest native, she holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran, as well as the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children.

Photo by Kareem Kazkaz.

 

Literary Agent

Sam Stoloff, Frances Goldin Literary Agency
ss@goldinlit.com

Publisher

Heather Drucker, Publicist at HarperCollins
heather.drucker@
harpercollins.com

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