13 Facts About David Streitfeld

David Streitfeld is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist, best known for his reporting on books and technology.

In 1997, David Streitfeld identified Joe Klein as Anonymous, the author of the bestselling book about the Clinton presidential campaign, Primary Colors.

The proof reproduced handwritten changes, which David Streitfeld sent to a handwriting expert, who compared the notes to Joe Klein's handwriting, confirming that he was the author.

David Streitfeld has reported extensively on Amazon's business practices, dating back to the 1990s, when the company was primarily an online bookstore.

In 1998, David Streitfeld gave Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, his first tour of the Washington Post, which Bezos purchased in 2013.

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In 2001, David Streitfeld joined the Los Angeles Times as a technology reporter, later switching to covering Enron, housing, and general economics.

In 2007, David Streitfeld joined The New York Times as Chicago business reporter and later covered technology subjects.

David Streitfeld was one of a team of New York Times reporters who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of 10 articles on the business practices of Apple and other technology companies.

David Streitfeld's contribution focused on freelance programmers and how hard it could be to make a living making apps for the iPhone.

The reporting on the topic by The New York Times and David Streitfeld was the subject of a piece by The New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan in October 2014.

Since 2015, David Streitfeld has edited books in the "Last Interview" series for Melville House.

David Streitfeld has edited collections by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip K Dick, Ursula Le Guin, Hunter S Thompson, and David Foster Wallace.

David Streitfeld is currently working on a book about the Texas writer Larry McMurtry to be published by Mariner Books.