Bryan Burrough
Bryan Burrough
Bryan Burroughis an American author and correspondent for Vanity Fair. He has written five books: Barbarians at the Gate, Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra, Dragonfly, Public Enemiesand The Big Rich. Burrough was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Dallas, Texas between 1983 and 1992. He has written for Vanity Fair since 1992. While a Wall Street Journal reporter, he won the Gerard Loeb Award for excellence in financial journalism three times. Burrough has written...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth13 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
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I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.
From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.