[4][6] After their temporary visas expired, the Wang family remained in the United States as undocumented immigrants in Brooklyn.
[4] Wang's early talent for writing was mistaken as plagiarism by an elementary school teacher, prompting her to deliberately hide her abilities throughout much of her primary education.
[5][6] After graduating from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Wang earned her juris doctor at Yale Law School in 2012.
[3][5] She worked as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis and as an appellate litigator within the New York City Law Department before moving to Robins Kaplan, where she was elected to partnership within two years of joining the firm.
She decided to start writing her memoir, Beautiful Country, in the wake of the 2016 US election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.