David Lipsky
| David Lipsky | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 20, 1965 New York City |
| Occupation | Novelist, journalist, short story writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1985– |
| Notable works |
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself Absolutely American (2003) The Art Fair (1996) |
David Lipsky (born July 20, 1965) is an American author. His works have been New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books, Time magazine and NPR Best Books of the Year, and have been included in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Short Stories collections.
Lipsky received a National Magazine Award in 2009. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone Magazine. He currently lives in New York City.
David Lipsky was born in New York City, and is the son of the painter Pat Lipsky. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1983. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, studying with the writer John Hawkes. He received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with the novelist John Barth. Lipsky currently teaches creative writing at the M.F.A. program at New York University.
As an undergraduate, Lipsky published his story "Three Thousand Dollars" in The New Yorker magazine; it was selected by Raymond Carver as one of the Best American Short Stories of 1986. Carver was surprised by the author's youth, noting in his introduction,
I confess to not having read David Lipsky before this. Have I been asleep and missed some stories of his, or maybe even a novel or two? I don't know. I do know I intend to pay attention from now on.
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