![]() ![]() Running with Scissors was released in 2001 to virtually unanimous critical acclaim. It was also a publishing phenomenon that helped to ignite a kind of memoir fever in America and abroad. It is currently in development as a feature film.Īugusten's second book was a memoir. And Sellevision stands as Burroughs's only published novel. Never outlining or consciously structuring the book, Burroughs wrote, "as fast as I could type, to keep up." Seven days later, Augusten Burroughs had written his first book. But spurned by a compulsion he did not understand, Burroughs began to write a novel. A very successful advertising copywriter for over seventeen years, he was also an alcoholic who nearly drank himself to death in 1999. ![]() Augusten Burroughs born Christopher Robison, son of poet and writer Margaret Robison and younger brother of John Elder Robison.īurroughs has no formal education beyond elementary school. ![]()
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