Bryan Burrough is an American journalist and author of eight books, including four New York Times best-sellers, the Wall Street classic Barbarians at the Gate ; 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 His most recent book, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, was published by Penguin Press in June 2025.
Biography
Bryan Burrough is an American journalist and author of eight books, including four New York Times best-sellers, the Wall Street classic Barbarians at the Gate ; 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 His most recent book, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, was published by Penguin Press in June 2025.
