Augusten Burroughs is the author of RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, DRY, MAGICAL THINKING: True Stories, POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, A WOLF AT THE TABLE and YOU BETTER NOT CRY. He is also the author of the novel SELLEVISION, which has been optioned for film. The film version of RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, directed by Ryan Murphy and produced by Brad Pitt, was released in October 2006 and starred Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Annette Bening (nominated for a Golden Globe for her role), Alec Baldwin and Evan Rachel Wood. Augusten's writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers around the world including The New York Times and New York Magazine. In 2005, Entertainment Weekly named him one of "The 25 Funniest People in America." He resides in New York City and Western Massachusetts.

Books by Augusten Burroughs

A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father

by Augusten Burroughs

With A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs’ sixth book and third full-length memoir, the author of Running with Scissors meets the challenge of writing about his abusive, alcoholic father, a man prone to potentially dangerous outbursts and unnerving spells of unreachable silence. Beginning from the uncomprehending perspective of playful but lonely boy, and closing with the self-reflective wisdom of an insightful young man, A Wolf at the Table is, as The New York Times states, a “terrifying depiction of a soulless sociopath who can barely contain a murderous rage toward his youngest son and mentally unstable wife.” Yet, imbued with Burroughs’ characteristic wit and skewed sensibility, it becomes an ultimately affecting tale, both heartbreaking and thoroughly entertaining.