2009-2010 Speakers
Bryan Burrough
October 5, 2009
7 p.m.
Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair magazine and the author of five books, including the No. 1 New York Times Best-Seller “Barbarians at the Gate” and the bestselling “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.”
“Public Enemies” is the definitive account of the 1930s crime wave that brought criminals like Bonnie and Clyde to America's front pages. It served as the basis for Universal Studios’ release “Public Enemies,” starring Johnny Depp as legendary bank robber John Dillinger and Christian Bale as his nemesis, FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Burrough, a three-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism, was raised in Temple, Texas, and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. From 1983 to 1992 he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he reported from Dallas, Houston, and Pittsburgh and, during the late 1980s, covered the busy mergers and acquisitions beat in New York. Burrough joined Vanity Fair in 1992, where he has reported from locales as diverse as Hollywood, Nepal, Moscow, Tokyo and Jerusalem.
His most recent book, “The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes” profiles the Big Four oil dynasties of H.L. Hunt, Roy Cullen, Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson, along with their cronies, rivals and families.
In addition to consulting work for 60 Minutes and various Hollywood studios, Burrough has appeared in many documentary films.
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