The film, starring Annette Benning, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh and Alec Baldwin was released in 2005. The memoir would ultimately remain on the New York Times bestseller list for over four consecutive years, eight months of which were spent in the #1 position. 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. From having no formal education past third grade and being raised by his mother’s psychiatrist in the seventies to enjoying one of the most successful advertising careers of the eighties to experiencing a spectacular downfall and rehab stint in the nineties to. 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. To say that Augusten Burroughs has lived an unusual life is an understatement. A very successful advertising copywriter for over seventeen years, Burroughs began to write his first novel. Augusten Burroughs born Christopher Robison, son of poet and writer Margaret Robinson, and younger brother of John Elder Robinson.īurroughs has no formal education beyond elementary school.
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