Sam Lipsyte (born 1968) is an American novelist and short story writer.

[1] The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey,[2] where he attended Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest.

[6] His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Quarterly, The New Yorker, Harper's, Noon, Tin House, Open City, N+1, Slate, McSweeney's, Esquire, GQ, Bookforum, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Nouvelle Revue Française, The Paris Review, This Land, and Playboy, among other places.

His books have been translated into several languages, including French, Russian, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Venus Drive was named one of the 25 Best Books of 2000 by The Village Voice Literary Supplement.