Born in New York, reporter William Wan grew up living across five continents, with most of his childhood spent in the prairie lands of Canada and the Mississippi delta. During 2003 and 2004, he worked as a metro and roving state reporter for the Los Angeles Times. In 2004, he moved to the Baltimore Sun and served as the paper’s main rewrite reporter. Since 2005, he has served as a feature writer and general assignment reporter for the Washington Post and contributed to its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. He now lives in D.C. with his wife Julie and covers religion for the Post. He also writes for the Post’s God in Government blog.
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