Edan Lepucki

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.

Early life Edan Lepucki grew up in Los Angeles, California and graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. The New York Times suggested Lepucki had, in effect, "won the literary Lotto". According to one report, Lepucki signed 10,000 copies of her novel over the span of three days.

Lepucki is an instructor with the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Narrative Magazine, Meridian and elsewhere.

Works Books Woman No. 17 Crown/Archetype California, Hachette Publishers If You're Not Yet Like Me, Novella, 2014, Time's Mouth, Berkeley: Catapult, 2023.

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