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    Augusten Xon Burroughs (born Christopher Richter Robison, October 23, 1965) is an American writer best known for his New York Times bestselling memoir...
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  • Scissors is a 2002 memoir by American writer Augusten Burroughs. The book tells the story of Burroughs's bizarre childhood life after his mother, a chain-smoking...
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  • American comedy drama film written and directed by Ryan Murphy, based on Augusten Burroughs' 2002 memoir of the same name, and starring Joseph Cross, Annette...
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    (2022–present). Murphy has also directed the 2006 film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' memoir Running with Scissors, the 2010 film adaptation of Elizabeth...
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  • Dry is a memoir written by American writer Augusten Burroughs. It describes the author's battle with alcoholism. Dry was written before Running with Scissors...
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  • opera As the World Turns (1999–2004). In 2006, Cross played the young Augusten Burroughs in Running with Scissors, a drama also featuring Annette Bening and...
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    Scissors, based on Augusten Burroughs' best-selling memoir about his childhood, he portrayed Dr Finch, the psychiatrist of Burroughs's mother and patriarch...
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    Tegan wrote and recorded a song titled "His Love" at the request of Augusten Burroughs as a contribution to the audio version of his book A Wolf at the Table...
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  • Decrepitude & More for Young and Old Alike is the eighth book by Augusten Burroughs. It was released on May 8, 2012. According to the publisher's synopsis...
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    the film was based on the memoir by Augusten Burroughs, which is a semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs' childhood in a dysfunctional family....
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  • better and Burroughs may be running out of material. Burroughs, A. Possible Side Effects. New York: St. Martin's Press Burroughs, Augusten (May 2, 2006)...
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    2012, Woodstock hosted the Woodstock Writers Festival. Ann Hood, Augusten Burroughs, Shalom Auslander, Kurt Andersen and Ned Leavitt spoke and offered...
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  • You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas is the sixth memoir by Augusten Burroughs. It was released on October 27, 2009. The book is a collection of autobiographical...
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    interviews have included writers, actors, and politicians, such as Augusten Burroughs, several 2008 U.S. Republican Party presidential primaries candidates...
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  • Lust & Wonder: A Memoir is the ninth book by Augusten Burroughs. It was released on March 29, 2016. According to the editor, the book is a memoir "about...
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    Tithe, Valiant, Ironside, and co-author of the Spiderwick Chronicles Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors Michelle Chamuel, singer, songwriter...
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  • Magical Thinking is a 2004 memoir by American writer Augusten Burroughs. The book contains stories from the adult life of the author. Magical Thinking...
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  • Scissors (memoir), a 2002 book by Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors (film), a 2006 adaptation of Burroughs's memoir, directed by Ryan Murphy Running...
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    three times and has one son. He is the elder brother of memoirist Augusten Burroughs, who also wrote about his childhood in the memoir Running with Scissors...
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    developed with Bryan Singer and based on the book of the same name by Augusten Burroughs, and No Kill, Fuller's first sitcom. Neither project got past the...
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  • addiction memoir in American literature, a precursor to such works as Augusten Burroughs' Dry or David Carr's The Night of the Gun.[citation needed] Malcolm...
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  • 2008 memoir by Augusten Burroughs that recounts his turbulent childhood relationship with his father. In the summer of 2007, Burroughs announced on his...
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  • Nix, The Black Book of Bibliomancy, a fake book, is mentioned. In Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors, bibliomancy (referred to as "Bible-dipping")...
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    autobiographical tale of teenage angst and dysfunction based on the book by Augusten Burroughs; also starring Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow and Evan Rachel Wood...
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    announced NBC has partnered with Singer and Bryan Fuller to adapt Augusten Burroughs's Sellevision into a series about a fictional home shopping network...
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  • The Ron Clark Story Ron Clark Matthew Perry Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs Joseph Cross Stan Stan Laurel Jim Norton (old), Nik Howden (young)...
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  • September 29 – Nikolaj Frobenius, Norwegian novelist October 23 – Augusten Burroughs, American memoirist November 28 – Erwin Mortier, Belgian poet, novelist...
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  • Dry (TV series), an Irish TV series Dry (memoir), a 2003 memoir by Augusten Burroughs The Dry (novel), a 2016 novel by Jane Harper Dry, a 2018 novel by...
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    thumbs despite his mother's warnings about The Great Tall Scissorman. Augusten Burroughs' 2002 memoir Running with Scissors spent eight weeks on the New York...
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  • the knowledge. He was first introduced to the public in his brother Augusten Burroughs' memoir Running with Scissors. He wrote Look Me in the Eye as his...
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