Bryan Burrough
Journalist and author
Bryan Burrough is a journalist from the US who has written eight books, among them Barbarians at the Gate and Forget the Alamo.
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American Born 1961 in Tennessee, United States
About Bryan Burrough
Bryan Burrough was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1961 and graduated from the University of Missouri journalism school in 1983. He worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, with postings in Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh and New York. He later became a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, where his reporting covered topics from the disappearance of Natalee Holloway to the Anthony Pellicano case. He has also been Editor at Large at Texas Monthly, where his true-crime podcast Stephenville drew national notice in 2023. With John Helyar, Burrough wrote Barbarians at the Gate, which held the top spot on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for 39 weeks. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth was written with Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford. His other books include Public Enemies and The Big Rich. His most recent, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, was published in June 2025.