David Lipsky was born in New York City on born July 20, 1965. He transferred in his sophomore year to Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude and, 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, and is is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine.
Lipsky is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Absolutely American and Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, which became the basis for the movie The End of the Tour. He has written for Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and New York, and he is a recipient of the National Magazine Award and the GLAAD Media Award.
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