Running with Scissors covers the period of Burroughs' adolescent years, beginning at age 12 after a brief overview of his life as a child. Running with Scissors spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The book tells the story of Burroughs's bizarre childhood life after his mother, a chain-smoking aspiring poet, sent him to live with her psychiatrist. “Pain Relief.” People, vol.58, no.13 (2002): 229-230.Running with Scissors is a 2002 memoir by American writer Augusten Burroughs. “Ruthless with Scissors.” Vanity Fair Hive, January 2007. He now lives with his husband and their dogs in rural Connecticut.īissinger, Buzz. Burroughs was awarded a Doctor of Letters from the Savanah College of Art & Design in Atlanta, Georgia in 2016. Burrough’s best-selling book, This is How (2012), is widely acclaimed by mental health practitioners and young people who attribute the book with preventing suicide.Īs one of the best-selling LGBTQ+ authors in history, Burroughs’ books have sold over 10 million copies around the globe. A Wolf at the Tabl e (2008) is an examination of life with his difficult father.
In 2006, it was made into a movie starring Annette Benning and Alec Baldwin.Īugusten Burroughs has written eight memoirs, plus a novel, a self-help book and a children’s picture book. Running with Scissors was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than seventy weeks. He then moved to San Francisco and became a copywriter, writing copy for a number of top advertising companies before Running with Scissors became “ a publishing phenomenon, spending three consecutive years on the New York Times bestseller list. He studied for a Diploma in Computer Programming and Systems Analysis and Design. Turcotte was stripped of his medical licence in 1986.Īugusten Burroughs moved to Boston as the age of seventeen. Turcotte was reportedly into unorthodox beliefs and behaviours, including permitting a man in his thirties to have sex with Augusten when he was thirteen. His name was Dr Rodolph Harvey Turcotte but was named Dr Finch in the book. Members of the family say it was about eighteen months.Įventually Burroughs’ mother signed over guardianship of her younger son to the psychiatrist. In his book, Running with Scissors, Burroughs says he lived with the psychiatrist and his large family for more than three years. Both parents struggled with mental health problems and alcoholism and they separated when Augusten was twelve.Īugusten was sent by his mother to live with his parents’ psychiatrist because she was going through a difficult time. 1965), was in foster care as a teenager before he was adopted.īurroughs was born Christopher Richter Robison to a philosophy academic, John Robison, and a poet, Margaret Robison.
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