Helen Wan
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University of Virginia (JD)
Helen Wan | |
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| Born | Helen Catherine Wan[1] January 29, 1973[2] |
| Education | Amherst College (BA) University of Virginia (JD) |
| Occupations | Novelist, lawyer |
| Website | http://www.helenwan.com |
Helen Catherine Wan (born January 29, 1973) is a Taiwanese-American novelist and lawyer. She is the author of the 2013 novel The Partner Track, the story of a young Chinese-American woman poised to become the first minority female partner at a powerful, prestigious corporate law firm and the basis for the 2022 series Partner Track.
Wan was born in Monterey County, California, to a Taiwanese American family. She was raised near Washington, D.C. Her parents, Peter and Catherine Wan, were Taiwanese immigrants who met in Taiwan and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1960s.[3][4] They were originally waishengren who left China during the Great Retreat.[5]
After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Wan attended Amherst College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1990.[6] She then earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1998.[5]
Legal career
Prior to becoming a full-time author and lecturer, she was Associate General Counsel at the Time Inc. division of Time Warner Inc. and a corporate and media attorney at the law firms Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C. and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and practised media and corporate law in New York City for over fifteen years.[7]
