Augusten Burroughs
Author of Running with Scissors
About the Author
Image credit: Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Series
Works by Augusten Burroughs
This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude… (2012) 671 copies
The Wisdom Tooth [short story] 2 copies
Losing a ‘Boyfriend,’ the Best Way Possible — Author — 2 copies
Dry / Magical Thinking 1 copy
Dry / Running with Scissors 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Robison, Christopher Richter (birth)
Burroughs, Augusten Xon - Birthdate
- 1965-10-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Shutesbury, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Holyoke Community College
- Occupations
- advertising
screenwriter
essayist - Relationships
- Robison, Margaret (mother)
Robison, John Elder (brother) - Organizations
- National Public Radio's Morning Edition (commentator)
- Awards and honors
- The 25 Funniest People in America (Ranked 15, Entertainment Weekly, 2005)
It List (Entertainment Weekly)
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Reviews
Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
This was a re-read. Upon recommending a friend give Burroughs's Dry a read I decided to give myself a mini-retrospective of his work. Running with Scissors is kind of a classic in the comic trauma memoir genre at this point, it would seem. It's still a great read, full of voice and vivid descriptions of settings and interior life. Forgot how brutal some of the content was.
I read "Look Me In The Eyes" before reading this and somehow I expected... more.
More fun. More humor.
It IS full of little weird and fun things but a bit disjointed.
More fun. More humor.
It IS full of little weird and fun things but a bit disjointed.
Very bizarre memoir. Very dysfunctional childhood. Mother gave guardianship to her psychiatrist when he was 13.
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Statistics
- Works
- 16
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 32,957
- Popularity
- #587
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 696
- ISBNs
- 218
- Languages
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- Favorited
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