Wendy WalkerRead The New York Times article "Speaking Loudly to Her New Canaan Peers" View a video of Wendy discussing Four Wives and her writing Listen to an interview with Wendy on WrittenVoices.com Wendy discussing her inspiration for Four Wives on TheHouseholdHelper.com Wendy Walker is a former commercial litigator who has been a stay at home mom for the past ten years. She began writing as a hobby a few years ago and had her first novel, Four Wives, published in 2008 by St. Martin’s Press. Wendy obtained her undergraduate degree from Brown University with a double major in economics and political science. Her junior year was spent at the London School of Economics. Upon graduating magna cum laude, she worked as a financial analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York. As an attorney, she worked in private practice both in New York and Connecticut, and served as a pro bono lawyer at the ACLU. While attending Law School at Georgetown University, where she graduated magna cum laude, she spent a summer in the Special Prosecutions Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. As a young girl, Wendy trained for competitive figure skating at facilities in Colorado and New York. She now serves on the board of Figure Skating in Harlem, an organization committed to the development of underprivileged girls which she helped found in 1997. She lives in suburban Connecticut and is busy raising her three sons and writing her second novel. |