Bryan Burrough — American Author born on August 13, 1961,

Bryan Burrough is 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 Enemies and 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 a number of book reviews and OpEd articles for publications such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. He has also made appearances on "Today", "Good Morning America", and many documentaries... (wikipedia)

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Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
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'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.