# David Streitfeld

david streitfeld is an American journalist. During his tenure as book reporter at The Washington Post, he definitively identified Joe Klein as the "Anonymous" author of the 1996 novel Primary Colors, upon which Klein admitted authorship, despite earlier denials.Streitfeld was book reporter at The Washington Post from 1987 until 1998, after which he covered Silicon Valley and technology for the Post out of San Francisco.In 2001, Streitfeld joined the Los Angeles Times as a technology reporter, later switching to covering Enron, housing, and general economics. In July 2006, the Atlantic magazine named him "The Bard of the Bubble" for his LA Times real estate coverage.In 2007, Streitfeld joined The New York Times as Chicago business reporter and later covered technology subjects.