David Breskin

David Breskin
Born	1958 Chicago, Illinois
Residence	San Francisco, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University
Occupation	Writer Record producer
Years active	1980 - Present
Website	http://davidbreskin.com/

David Breskin is an American writer, poet, and record producer. He has written eight books, collaborated with visual artists such as Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha, and produced albums by artists including Nels Cline, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, and Ronald Shannon Jackson. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly and New American Writing, among other journals.

Breskin was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. In college, as a student at Brown University, he wrote for The Village Voice. He graduated from Brown with a B.A. in 1980, magna cum laude, with a double-major in History and Semiotics.

Breskin moved to New York City following his graduation. He wrote for publications including Esquire, The Village Voice, GQ, Musician, LIFE, and Rolling Stone, where he was a contributing editor. Over the course of the decade, he conducted interviews with Bono, Willie Nelson, Steven Spielberg, and Wayne Shorter, among others, and wrote feature stories on people such as musician Miles Davis, comedian Martin Short, basketball player Michael Jordan and architect Helmut Jahn.

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