David Lipsky (born 20 July 1965 in New York City) is a novelist, journalist, and short story writer. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1983[1] and Brown University in 1987, and holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Lipsky is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. He currently lives in New York City.
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Biography
David Lipsky was born in New York City; he is the son of the painter Pat Lipsky. He attended Brown University, where he studied with John Hawkes. He received his MA at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with John Barth. As an undergraduate, Lipsky published his story "Three Thousand Dollars" in the New Yorker magazine; it was named one of the Best American Short Stories of 1986. His novel The Art Fair (2003), a bildungsroman composed of a number of autobiographical elements, tells the story of Richard and Joan Freely -- a New York artist and her precocious son. The novel won rave reviews and was named a Time Magazine Best Book of the Year. Lipsky's book Absolutely American (2003) was written after the author spent four years living at West Point. The genesis for the book was a piece Lipsky wrote for Rolling Stone -- the longest article published in that Magazine since Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The book was a New York Times best-seller. Lipsky sold the television rights to the story to Disney, for a possible ABC television series.
Works
Non-Fiction
Absolutely American (2003)
Novels
The Art Fair (1996)
Short stories
Three Thousand Dollars (1986)
References
- ^ Gross, Max. "Rolling Stone Reporter Gets Inside Peek at West Point", Forward, 2003-07-04. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
