Memoirist Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs

Living place: Pittsburgh

Birthday: 23-10-1965 (59 years old)

Population of US 1965: 194,302,963

Global rank: #73970

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Who is Memoirist Augusten Burroughs?
An American author, he is best known for his 2002 best-selling memoir, Running With Scissors. His other autobiographical works include Dry (2003) and A Wolf at the Table (2008).
He wrote a television series for Showtime that was based on his memoir, Dry.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He briefly attended community college in Massachusetts before dropping out to work for a New York City advertising agency. In his early adulthood, he battled alcoholism.

Family life info

He was born in Pittsburgh to poet Margaret Robison and professor of philosophy John Robison. When he was twelve years old, his parents divorced and he was adopted by a psychiatrist who had previously advised his mother. His brother, John Elder Robison, also became an author of memoirs.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Memoirist Augusten Burroughs?
His memoir, Running With Scissors, was turned into a film starring Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Annette Bening, and Alec Baldwin.

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When was Memoirist Augusten Burroughs born?
Augusten Burroughs birthday 23-10-1965 (at the age of 59).
Where is Memoirist Augusten Burroughs's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Augusten Burroughs was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania- United States. is a Memoirist, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Augusten Burroughs's global rank is 73970 and whose rank is 47 in list of famous Memoirist. Population of US in 1965 is about 194,302,963 persons.
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Events in 1965 and 23-10

Events in US in the birth year of Augusten Burroughs

  • Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 others arrested in Selma, Ala., during demonstrations against voter-registration rules (Feb. 1). Background: Civil Rights
  • Malcolm X, black-nationalist leader, shot to death at Harlem rally (Feb. 21).
  • Blacks riot for six days in Watts section of Los Angeles: 34 dead, over 1,000 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested (Aug. 11-16).

Birthday Augusten Burroughs (23-10) in history

  • Day 23-10 year 1915: 25,000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
  • Day 23-10 year 1946: The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.
  • Day 23-10 year 1973: President Richard Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.
  • Day 23-10 year 1983: A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors.
  • Day 23-10 year 2002: Chechen rebels seized a crowded Moscow theater, taking hundreds hostage. Russian forces stormed the building the next day.
  • Day 23-10 year 2003: Madame Chiang Kai-shek died at age 105.
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