High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Lipsky (born 20 July 1965) is an American author. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1983 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 received a National Magazine Award for writing about David Foster Wallace in 2009. He currently lives in New York City.