Bryan Burrough
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Bryan Burrough is an American author and correspondent for Vanity Fair
. He has written five books: Barbarians at the Gate
(1990), Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra (1992), Dragonfly
(1998), Public Enemies (2004) and The Big Rich
(2009). Burrough was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Dallas, Texas
between 1983 and 1992. He has written for Vanity Fair since 1992. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, he is a three-time winner of the Gerard Loeb Award for excellence in financial journalism.
He is credited as Consultant on the films Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) and Public Enemies (2009), which was based on his book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34".
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
. He has written five books: Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco is a 1990 book about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, written by investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The book is based upon a series of articles written by the authors for The Wall Street Journal...
(1990), Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra (1992), Dragonfly
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir is a book by Bryan Burrough about the Russian Mir space station and the cosmonauts and astronauts who served aboard...
(1998), Public Enemies (2004) and The Big Rich
The Big Rich
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes is the fifth and latest book by Bryan Burrough, published in 2009. The book tells the story of four Texas oil men and their families that made large fortunes in the oil industry: Hugh Roy Cullen, Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson and...
(2009). Burrough was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
between 1983 and 1992. He has written for Vanity Fair since 1992. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, he is a three-time winner of the Gerard Loeb Award for excellence in financial journalism.
He is credited as Consultant on the films Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) and Public Enemies (2009), which was based on his book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34".