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David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle was last summer’s megahit literary novel, rising as high as number five on the New York Times fiction best-seller list, and remaining suspended in that golden empyrean until this March. It was the first novel by Wroblewski, a forty-eight-year-old software developer from Colorado who worked on the book for ten years. After the book was launched by a wildly enthusiastic notice in the Times, Wroblewski then had the extreme good fortune of winning the esteem of today’s most influential literary critic, Miss Oprah Winfrey. She guaranteed his book’s commercial success by making it an Oprah’s Book Club selection, and supported the choice with her trademark élan: “I think that this is right up there with the greatest American novels ever written. Up there with Steinbeck and even Harper Lee.” Thus Melville, Fitzgerald, Bellow are dispatched to Palookaville, and Wroblewski ascends among the gods. With Steinbeck! Even Harper Lee!

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