Bryan Burrough (born August 13, 1961, in Memphis, TN) is an American journalist and author of eight books, including four New York Times best-sellers, the Wall Street classic Barbarians at the Gate (with John Helyar); 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 (with Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford.) His next book, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the Wild West, will be published by Penguin Press in June 2025. A 1983 graduate of the University of Missouri journalism school, Burrough was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal between 1983 and 1992, working in Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh and New York. While at the Journal, he won the Gerald Loeb Award for excellent in financial journalism three times. From 1992 until 2017 he was a special correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine. His book reviews and op-ed articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. He has made appearances on Today, Good Morning America and many documentary films. He is currently Editor at Large at Texas Monthly magazine. His Texas Monthly true-crime podcast, Stephenville, received national notice in 2023. Burrough is a member of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters, the Philosophical Society of Texas and the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame.