William Wan is a religion reporter for the Washington Post.

Born in New York, he grew up living across five continents, with most of his childhood spent in the Canadian prairie and the Mississippi delta. In 2003, he began working as a metro and roving state reporter for the Los Angeles Times. In 2004, he became the Baltimore Sun’s main rewrite reporter. And since 2005, he has been a feature writer and general assignment reporter for the Washington Post.

He contributed to its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007 and was a lead reporter on the 2010 Pulitzer finalist team covering the Fort Hood shootings. He now lives with his wife in Washington.

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