B Surnames of Authors on Twitter
Surnames beginning with B.
From Elizabeth Baines, author of The Birth Place, to Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors...
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- @elizabethbaines
- Elizabeth Baines - General
- @PhilippaJane
- Phillippa Ballentine - Fantasy
- @anyabast
- Anya Bast - Fantasy/Romance
- @arjunbasu
- Arjun Basu - General/Short Stories
- @matociquala
- Elizabeth Bear - Fantasy
- @rathacat
- Clare Bell - Children's/Young Adult Fantasy
- @amber_benson
- Amber Benson - Science Fiction/Fantasy
- @ShaneBerryhill
- Shane Berryhill - Young Adult /Science Fiction
- @jennablack
- Jenna Black - Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
- @Alessia_Brio
- Alessia Brio - Erotica
- @susanwrites
- Susan Taylor Brown - Children's
- @tobiasbuckell
- Tobias Buckell - Science Fiction
- @buckmasterflash
- Heath L. Buckmaster - General
- @augusten
- Augusten Burroughs - Memoir/Humor
Note: This author writes non-fiction,
but I thought he deserved to be on the list.
Elizabeth Baines
@ElizabethBaines
From http://keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com/Elizabeth Baines is a writer of prose fiction and prize-winning plays for radio and stage. Her short story collection, Balancing on the Edge of the World, was published by Salt in 2007 and was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Award for the Short Story 2008. Her novel, Too Many Magpies, will come from Salt in late 2009. Elizabeth was born in South Wales and now lives in Manchester. She has been a teacher and is also an occasional actor.
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- Blogged about Waterstone's response to the Guardian article http://bit.ly/fGSSC
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- RT @nikperring Small Pubs Vs Amazon: The Facts http://bit.ly/3tSGqF
Philippa Ballantine
@phillippajane
From pjballentine.comBorn in Wellington, New Zealand, I always had my head in a book, influenced no doubt by my father who thought Lord of the Rings was suitable bedtime reading for an eight year old.
One of my old schoolfriends remembers me trailing about with an green hardbacked journal which I was busy scratching my first 'novel' into. I had run out of stories to read, and found great enjoyment in writing my own. These early scribblings might not be publishable, and cause plenty of amusement now, but they were the stirrings of a need to express myself. But fantasy writing was not highly regarded in literary circles. My 'normal' writings earned me praise and a spot in the school magazine, but what I yearned for was magic. My writing spluttered out.
I studied English Literature and Politics at Victoria University, and after graduation found myself in the world of libraries. Then one day, after one of those painful life altering moments, I picked up the pen again, this time determined to enjoy writing for its sake, and not to worry if it bought me acclaim or not. Basically I had learned not to care about the goal- just to enjoy writing itself. I haven't stopped since. Oddly I never considered a career with books, even though they surrounded me from the beginning. It feels like I have found my place.
So now writing takes up large portions of my time, and I squeeze in other activities, like gardening, needlework, collecting dragons and ceramics, DIY, and reading (of course). I'm particularly fascinated by renaissance and medieval history in Europe, and the history of my own country New Zealand. For a few years I was the New Zealand history editor at Suite101.
Anya Bast
@anyabast
Anya Bast was born and raised in Minnesota. While in graduate school she sold her first book and decided to abandon her career in psychology and write full time. She is the author of over twenty works of fiction, including the Elemental Witches series as well as the standalone title, The Chosen Sin. Latest Tweets

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- @wedschilde The dog survives. I was worried too. I hate it when they put animals in movies. Of course, all the rest of the dogs on Earth die
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- @Envyious Oh! The dog's name was Caesar. Didn't catch that. But, yeah, your mom is right about the dogs. Guess I didn't need to worry.
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- @wedschilde No. Almost everyone dies. LOL.
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- @Envyious I was very worried about the little dog. ;)
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- @Envyious Really? I laughed a lot & clung to my husband's hand a lot. No crying. Though obviously the flick's concept *is* incredibly heavy.
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Arjun Basu
@arjunbasu
From www.dcbooks.caArjun Basu was born and bred in Montreal. He was editor in chief of enRoute between 2001 and 2007. He continues to live in Montreal, with his wife and son, and his life is as squishy as anyone else's.
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- She waited for him, naked under the sheets, ready for loving. And finally, he rushed in and tore off his clothes. I found a cannon! he said.
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- Their chess match devolved into side bets for fried potato products. And once the farting began they understood the depths of their loserdom
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- The carcass of an elephant fell to the street. Traffic backed up. The media appeared. Experts were called in. But the elephant remained dead
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- I'm not going to buy your marked down bread! he yells. And then, inevitably, the police arrive, and they club him with a day old onion loaf.
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- Phil walks in, morose, disheveled. I'm alone again, he sighs. The bartender pours a generous bourbon. Drink this, and then get out, he says.
Elizabeth Bear
@matociquala
Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author. Writing under the name Elizabeth Bear, she works primarily in the genre of speculative fiction, and was a winner of the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline," and the 2009 Hugo Award for her novelette "Shoggoths in Bloom."Twitter.com
A native of Hartford, Connecticut, her curriculum vitae includes working as a "media industry professional," a stablehand, a fluff-page reporter, a maintainer of Microbiology procedure manuals for a 1,000-bed inner-city hospital, a typesetter and layout editor, a traffic manager for an import-export business, Emmanuel Labour, and "the girl who makes the donuts at The Whole Donut at three A.M."
Until recently, she lived in Las Vegas, Nevada which served as the setting for the short stories One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King, Follow Me Light, and This Tragic Glass, but she returned to Connecticut in January 2006.
Her first novel Hammered was published in January 2005 and was followed by Scardown in July and Worldwired in November of the same year. The trilogy features Canadian Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey, who is also the main character in the short story Gone to Flowers. Hammered won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2006.
The Chains That You Refuse, a collection of her short fiction, was published May 2006 by Night Shade Books. Blood and Iron, the first book in the fantasy series entitled "The Promethean Age", debuted June 27th 2006. She is also a coauthor of the ongoing Shadow Unit website/pseudo-TV series.
In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection, Northern Illinois University
She is an instructor at the Viable Paradise writer's workshop and has taught at Clarion West Writers Workshop.
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- Pretty random fractals: http://www.rfractals.net/hex/index.html
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- That were a long poke. And so to bed.
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- 1109 and time to do the dishes and clean the kitchen and eat lunch. It's a draft, it can suck.
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- 534 words. Life is good.
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Clare Bell
@rathacat
Clare Bell (born 1952) is an author in the U.S. best known for her Ratha series of young adult fantasy novels about prehistoric big cats. These books, also called the Named series, are about intelligent self-aware large cats who have puma, cheetah and lion characteristics, and are based on fossil creatures who are ancestors of the saber-tooth cat.
The first book in the series, Rathas Creature appeared in 1983. The flap copy on the paperback re-issue of Clan Ground (the second book in the series which appeared in 1984) states that Bell:
:is a scientist, engineer, and author whose work has taken her to Norway to build electric cars, to Tahiti for research, to Marine World/Africa USA to meet a cheetah and into the depths of prehistory to develop the Ratha series...The author blends science and fantastic projection in her depiction of the Named ?- cheetah-like cats with an organized society.
Readers who followed Erin Hunters Warriors series about feral cats have gone on to read the Ratha series.
Bell's love for big cats is also expressed in Tomorrows Sphinx (about cheetahs in past and future Egypt) and The Jaguar Princess (a werecat (jaguar) woman in Aztec Mexico). Bell is also fascinated with flight, writing People of the Sky about Pueblo Indians who migrate from Earth to another planet and learn to ride winged aliens. Bells short stories have appeared in the Witch World and CatFantastic (cats and magic) anthologies, both edited by science fiction and fantasy writer, Andre Norton.
Recently Bell composed Rathas Island, an experimental novelette written specifically for the Twitter microblogging service, which intentionally limits posts to 140 characters or less so that they can be read on cellphones and other portable wireless devices. Rathas Island is an early entry into the area of Y/A Twitter fiction and has been well received. It is similar to the phenomenon of cellphone novels which are popular in Japan . The piece ran on Twitter beginning on March 14, 2009 and ending on May 9, with blocks of 5-10 Tweets, appearing twice daily during that time. Ratha's Island also explored the possibilities of alternative evolution in hexapodal (six-legged) as opposed to quadrepedal (four-legged) prehistoric mammals that evolved on an isolated island. Read it online at online at http://forum.rathascourage.com/index.php?showtopic=156
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- Thank you, health insurance industry for making things so unendurable that the House passed Health Care Reform! #hcr
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- On my back in wonder, all four paws up. More than 226,000 calls for health care reform! http://bit.ly/1xhcYF #hc09 #CA #95363 RT!
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- @asfghn Cool! If you want to know how Ratha's Island was done, look on my new site, http://bit.ly/4kmimV
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- Liked the Ratha's Island #rathafic, and the ClanChirps? Nominate me for Best Brand Use of Twitter http://mashable.com/owa #openwebawards
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- @SheilaRuth Just nominated @rathacat for Best Brand Use of Twitter http://mashable.com/owa #openwebawards All right! RT
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Ratha - look through the eyes of a prehistoric big cat
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Look through the eyes of a prehistoric big cat as she prowls the trails of her life. What if the first creatures to gain human-level conscious intelligence were not human but feline? Meet Ratha and her band of Named clan cats as they continue their...
Amber Benson
@amber_benson
Amber Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977) is an American actress, writer, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and directing, starring and producing her own films Chance, Lovers, Liars & Lunatics and the upcoming film Drones.
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- Overheard at dinner: "Gingham is making a come back." Reply: "Honey, gingham never left."
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- @AmberAddict I like to write my lines down a few times on a piece of paper. I find that it helps set the words in my mind :) Good luck!
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- @EvilElsbeth Yayayayayaya!! :)
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- @McKelvie Pretty sad, huh? :)
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- Just watched a man at mongolian bbq pile 3 lbs of frozen meat into a little bowl, pressing it down with his hand so he could get more in.
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Shane Berryhill
Faster than a not-so-speeding tortoise! More powerful than a five-year-old girl with the flu! Able to leap tall speed bumps in a single bound! Look, there at the computer! It's an illustrator! It's a writer! It's SHANE!
Shane signed with PMA Literary and Film Management, Inc in August 2004. By November of that same year, PMA had acquired a deal with Starscape Books / Tor for The Adventures of Chance Fortune series. Chance Fortune and The Outlaws was released in July 2006.
Shane lives with his wife Lesley in Chattanooga, Tennessee and continues to work on the next books in The Adventures of Chance Fortune series, along with several other novels.
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- "I knew I could #write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this." - #CormacMcCarthy
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- I hate all the "hurry up and wait" moments life seems filled with.
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- "The trick is not becoming a #writer. The trick is staying a #writer. Day after month after year #story after #book." - #HarlanEllison
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- "The most important thing I've found about #writing is that it is primarily an unconscious activity." - #WalterMosley
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- @jasonaaron Sad my Vols won't be there, but can't wait to see BAMA's D trounce Tebow!
Jenna Black
@jennablack
Jennifer Bellak is an American author of paranormal romance novels and urban fantasy novels under the pen name Jenna Black. She published one novel under her married name, Jennifer Barlow and at least two short stories under her maiden name.Jenna Black is your typical writer. Which means she's an "experience junkie." She got her BA in physical anthropology and French from Duke University.
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- http://twitpic.com/pkysj - Yay! I did not fall on my face in today's showcase. My husband got a nice picture, too.
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- Today's the big showcase day. Will have to miss local RWA meeting for it. Everyone please your cross fingers I don't fall on my face!
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- @TezMillerOz It's for my dance showcase tomorrow. The dress shows a fair amount of skin, and I didn't want to be fish-belly white.
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- Just got back from getting my spray tan. I won't know for hours how it's going to look without the bronzer.
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- Made appointment to get a spray tan this afternoon. Never had one before, but am hoping not to be deathly pale for tomorrow's performance.
Books by Jenna Black
Alessia Brio
@Alessia_Brio
From amazon.comAlessia Brio is a sassy tart from Pittsburgh who burst (or tip-toed, depending on who you ask) onto the erotic romance scene in the latter half of 2005 with two eBook publications from Phaze. Until that time, she'd been giving her stuff away on Literotica. Now, she gratefully accepts money for it.
Alessia writes erotic romance, erotica, and poetry both independently and collaboratively (with Will Belegon). She received nominations as Literotica's Most Influential Poet of 2004 and Most Influential Writer of 2005 & 2006 under the oh-so-humble pseudonym "impressive" (affectionately shortened to "Imp").
As a participant in the philanthropic publishing venture Coming Together (www.EroticAnthology.com), Alessia has helped to raise money for organizations that protect our online freedoms of expression.
When she's not writing, editing, designing covers, or researching, Ms. Brio is performing her domestic duties as a work-from-home mom, kicking a** (or kissing it) as a civil rights advocate/activist, or wasting time on the Internet. Alessia lives in the mountains near Pittsburgh where she masquerades as a soccer mom.
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- 1st half of 2nd month self-pubbing has earned 100% 1st month's net, which was 6x last royalty check! Yay, @purpleprosaic http://ow.ly/CvkV
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- Love that I can open the windows & enjoy the weather in mid-November -- but what's with my eyes itching & watering? *grumble*
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- All 3 books I entered in EPIC's "EPPIE" awards have reached the finals! Mega jazzed about the 2 @Coming_Together titles! http://ow.ly/CsFs
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- Long day. Mixed mood. Would rather be asleep than awake. So, g'night.
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- G'morning, tweeties. Wrapping up the poetry judging, then off to taekwondo tourney for the day. Cover art this evening. Maybe some writing.
Books by Alessia Brio
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The sin is in the shame
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My name is Alessia Brio, and I write erotica. No, not romance. That's just where the royalties-based publishing industry shelves the type of books I write. I don't feel a need to sugar coat it. It's EROTICA. Erotica that occasionally qualifies as rom...
Susan Taylor Brown
@susanwrites
From www.susanwrites.livejournal.comI am the author of books for children, including the middle grade verse novel HUGGING THE ROCK, OLIVER'S MUST-DO LIST, CAN I PRAY WITH MY EYES OPEN?, the easy reader SMALLS SAILS TO FREEDOM, and the forthcoming easy reader ENRIQUE ESPARZA, BOY AT THE ALAMO.
I have served on the faculty for the Highlights Foundation Chautauqua Conference and was the Writer-in-Residence for San Jose Community School working with at-risk students. I'm also a former newspaper columnist for the New Orleans Times Picayune and past instructor for the Institute of Children's Literature.
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- @claudiaosmond Congratulations! What lovely news to have Smudge's Mark be the book of the month. Doing the happy dance for you.
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- @lishacauthen I KNOW! It's at the top of the NetFlix queue now.
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- Have been a Twitter flake of late....having trouble balancing the social side with the writer side of me.
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- @lishacauthen I just found out hubby has NEVER seen Cabaret! We're fixing that right away.
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- @HeidiRKling Ack - I didn't see the RT and I listened to the darn clip three times waiting for her to say YOUR name and not Scott's!
Tobias S. Buckell
@tobiasbuckell
Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer who grew up in Grenada, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He has published stories in various magazines and anthologies. He is a Clarion graduate, Writers of The Future winner, and Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer Finalist.Tobias currently lives in Ohio with his wife, Emily.
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- My sister and her boyfriend just left after helping me drink much scotch!
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- @Metafrantic they didn't delete the book, they just had the wrong price and refunded the diff
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- @tinytempest I have to log off now, company. If you want to test Skype later ping me!
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- Huh, Amazon just refunded me $5 on a neurophysiology book I downloaded a while ago
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- @tinytempest sure: tobiasbuckell
Heath L. Buckmaster
@buckmasterflash
From heathbuckmaster.comHeath L. Buckmaster is an author, Anglophile, technology geek, an avid blogger, a freelance photographer, and a lover of diet Pepsi vanilla. He currently works as an Information Technology Manager for a large manufacturing company.
He is the author of several books of poetry, short stories, and general fiction, including the Princess Carrina series for Young Readers. Although he has been writing for many years, his formal writing career began in 2006 while participating in the National Novel Writing Month competition.
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- I haven't seen Wicked, but I can't stop listening to defying gravity. #glee
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- @_lodonnell_ it was a private video between me and my boyfriend who will swear in court i was underage even though i wasn't :-)
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- Going to see the stage play War of the Worlds tonight!!! How perfect for Saturday the 14th ;-).
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- This just keeps getting better - 7 more Prejean sex tapes found: http://is.gd/4UZrs
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- Laying on the couch feeling sick. Watching #glee, and absolutely balling my eyes out. I think I just fell in love with Jane Lynch.
Books by Heath L. Buckmaster
Augusten Burroughs
@augusten

Augusten Burroughs was born in 1965. He has no formal education beyond elementary school. A very successful advertising copywriter for over seventeen years, Burroughs was also an alcoholic who nearly drank himself to death in 1999. But spurned by a compulsion he did not understand, Burroughs began to write a novel. Never outlining or consciously structuring the book, Burroughs wrote, "as fast as I could type, to keep up." Seven days later, Augusten Burroughs had written his first book. He had also stopped drinking. The book was published one year layer. Burroughs remains sober to this day. And Sellevision stands as Burroughs's only published novel. It is currently in development as a feature film.
Augusten's second book was a memoir. It was also a publishing phenomenon that helped to ignite a kind of memoir fever in America and abroad. Running with Scissors was released in 2001 to virtually unanimous critical acclaim. The memoir would ultimately remain on the New York Times bestseller list for over four consecutive years, eight months of which were spent in the #1 position. The film, starring Annette Benning, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh and Alec Baldwin was released in 2005.
He has since published four additional autobiographical volumes (Dry, Possible Side Effects, Magical Thinking and A Wolf at the Table), all of them bestsellers. Currently published in over thirty countries, Augusten's book readings have become massively popular events on numerous continents. He has also headlined for the most prestigious literary festivals in the world, most recently the 2008 Melbourne writer's Festival, where he and Germaine Greer delivered the keynote addresses on opening night. In addition, Burroughs speaks regularly at colleges and universities on topics ranging from alcoholism and sexual abuse to the art of authoring one's own life and humor as serious medicine.
Augusten Burroughs and his partner Dennis live with their two French Bulldogs, Bentley and The Cow in Western Massachusetts and New York City. Burroughs is working on his next book.
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- Stuck at airport in deepest, darkest maine with only wetnaps and napkins for entertainment
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- Some girl brought me mm's lst night and now I feel I am carrying a stone baby. Google it.
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- In LA for a meeting. Then off to portland for event tomorrow.
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- On my way to Austin for my event tonight...
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- Tonight, 8PM: Miami...Books and Books. Call them for info.
Books by Augusten Burroughs
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