Bryan Burrough (born August 13, 1961, in

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) is an American author and correspondent for '' Vanity Fair''. He has written six books. Burrough was a reporter for ''

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'' in

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, between 1983 and 1992. He has written for ''Vanity Fair'' since 1992. While reporting for ''The Wall Street Journal'', he won the Gerard Loeb Award for excellence in financial journalism three times. Burrough has written a number of book reviews and op-ed articles for publications such as ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He has also made appearances on ''

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'', ''

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'', and many documentaries.

Education

Burrough obtained his degree from the

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in 1983.

Family

He stated in a Book TV interview on C-SPAN 2 with

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that he was born in Memphis, Tennessee but moved to

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when he was seven years old. He lived in

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with his wife Marla and their two sons, Dane and Griffin, until they divorced. He now lives in Texas.

Works

;Books non-fiction: * '' Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco'' (1990, with

John Helyar John Helyar (born 1951) is an American journalist and author. He is a graduate of Boston University. He is married to ''The Wall Street Journal''’s Betsy Morris. Helyar has worked for ''The Wall Street Journal'', Fortune magazine, ESPN.com, E ...

) * ''Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of

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'' (1992) * '' Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir'' (1998) * ''Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34'' (2004) * '' The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes'' (2009) * '' Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence'' (2015) * '' Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth'' (2021, with Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford) Other writing: * "Texas Has Had Its Day in the Political Sun" (February 22, 2009). ''The Washington Post''

Adaptations

* '' Public Enemies''. Was based on his book ''Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34'' * ''

Barbarians at the Gate ''Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco'' is a 1989 book about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco, written by investigative journalism, investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The book is based upon a series of ...

''. Was based on his book '' Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco''.

Awards

* 1989 Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline and/or Beat Writing for coverage of the RJR Nabisco buyout (shared with

) * 1991 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for the story "The Vendetta" * 1994 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for the story "Divided Dynasty"

References

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