Helene Weck­er is the best­selling author of The Golem and the Jin­ni, The Hid­den Palace, and The Gates of Mid­night. Her books been trans­lat­ed into over a dozen lan­guages and have won awards such as a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, the VCU Cabell Award, and a Gold­en Pop­py. She lives in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area with her family.