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.
[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] 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.