Helen Hoang is a Vietnamese-American writer in the romance genre who emerged on the scene with her debut novel The Kiss Quotient in 2018, a gender-flipped version of Pretty Woman about an autistic statistics analysist named Stella Lane who hires a male escort to teach her how to navigate the world of romantic relationships. Hoang herself was diagnosed with autism as an adult and decided to use her perspective in her writing.
Her works include:
- The Kiss Quotient (2018)
- The Bride Test (2019)
- The Heart Principle (2020)
Common tropes in her work:
- Write What You Know: Like her protagonists, Stella and Khai, Hoang is a Vietnamese-American on the autism spectrum. Her new protagonist, Anna, is also on the spectrum, but Chinese.
