Bryan Burrough

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Bryan Burrough (born August 13, 1961, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American journalist and author of eight books, including four New York Times best-sellers, the Wall Street classic Barbarians at the Gate (with John Helyar); Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34; The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Families; and Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (with Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford.) His most recent book, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, was published by Penguin Press in June 2025. A 1983 graduate of the University of Missouri journalism school, Burrough was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal between 1983 and 1992, working in Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh and New York. While at the Journal, he won the Gerald Loeb Award for excellence in financial journalism three times. From 1992 until 2017 he was a special correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine. His book reviews and op-ed articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.