
Bryan Burrough joined Vanity Fair in August 1992 and has been a special correspondent for the magazine since January 1995. He has reported on a wide range of topics, including the events that led to the war in Iraq, the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, and the Anthony Pellicano case. His profile subjects have included Sumner Redstone, Larry Ellison, Mike Ovitz, and Ivan Boesky. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Burrough was an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal. In 1990, with Journal colleague John Heylar, he co-authored Barbarians at the Gate (HarperCollins), which was No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for 39 weeks. Burrough's other books include Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmund Safra (HarperCollins, 1992), Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (HarperCollins, 1998); and Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34 (Penguin Press, 2004). Burrough is a three-time winner of the John Hancock Award for excellence in financial journalism. He lives in Summit, New Jersey with his wife Marla and their two sons.

2019

The Fall of RJR Nabisco
1989

America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
2015

NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
1997

The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
2021

America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
2004

The Master Mogul of Fleet Street: 24 Tales from the Pages of Vanity Fair
2011

The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
2009

2019

How Texas Made the West Wild
2025

2011

American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra
1992