Edan Lepucki is an American novelist notable for her debut novel, California , which rose to prominence as a result of a public dispute between comedian Stephen Colbert and online publisher Amazon. [1]
Edan Lepucki is an American novelist notable for her debut novel, California , which rose to prominence as a result of a public dispute between comedian Stephen Colbert and online publisher Amazon. [1]
Edan Lepucki grew up in Los Angeles, California and graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. [2]
Lepucki's debut novel, California , rose to prominence as a result of a public dispute between comedian Stephen Colbert and online publisher Amazon, [1] which arose when Colbert urged his viewers on two successive nights of his talk show to pre-order copies of the novel from his own publisher, the Hachette Book Group.
The novel was subsequently reviewed by national newspapers including the Boston Globe , Washington Post , the New York Times [2] the Los Angeles Times , and others. [3] [4] The New York Times suggested Lepucki had, in effect, "won the literary Lotto". [1] The San Jose Mercury News described Lepucki as a "terrific writer." [5] According to one report, Lepucki signed 10,000 copies of her novel over the span of three days. [6] Lepucki is an instructor with the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. [7] Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Narrative Magazine, Meridian and elsewhere. [7]
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