David Itzkoff
Itzkoff at the 2014Montclair Film Festival
Born	David L. Itzkoff (1976-03-02)March 2, 1976 (age 49) New York City, U.S.
Education	Princeton University (BA)
Occupations	Journalist author
Years active	1999–present
Spouse	Amy Justman ​ (m. 2008)​ [1]
Children	1

David L. Itzkoff (born March 2, 1976) is an American journalist and writer who is a former culture reporter forThe New York Times.^[2] Before joining theTimes, he was an associate editor atSpin andMaxim. He is the author ofCocaine's Son, a memoir about growing up with his drug-abusing father.^[3]

Itzkoff was born in New York City to Madelin and Gerald Itzkoff, and grew up in theBronx.^[4] His father had a cocaine addiction, which affected Dave's home life.^[5] He has a sister, Amanda, a psychiatrist. He is Jewish;^[6] his paternal grandfather and great-grandfather were Russian Jews who worked in the fur trade.^[7]

Itzkoff obtained his B.A. in English literature fromPrinceton University in 1998. He married actress and singer Amy Justman in 2008, and lives in New York.^[1] Together they have one son (b. 2015).^[8]

In 1999, Itzkoff worked as an editorial assistant forDetails magazine. He worked forMaxim magazine from 1999 to 2002 andSpin magazine from 2002 to 2006. From June 2007 to July 2008, Itzkoff worked as a freelance editor for the Sunday Styles section inThe New York Times. He is a former culture reporter forThe New York Times and writes frequently about film, television and comedy. His latest work is a biography ofRobin Williams.^[9]

In 2023, Itzkoff was one of almost 1,000New York Times contributors to sign an open letter expressing "serious concerns about editorial bias" in the newspaper's reporting on transgender people. The letter characterized the newspaper's reporting as using "an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language," and raised concerns regarding the paper's employment practices regarding trans contributors.^{[10][11][12][13]}

• Lads: A Memoir of Manhood, published in 2004^[14]
• Cocaine's Son: A Memoir, published in 2011
• Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies, published February 2014.ISBN 978-1250062246^[15]
• Robin, a biography of Robin Williams, published in May 2018

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