Running with Scissors

Name: Running with Scissors
Author: Augusten Burroughs

by Augusten Burroughs

A darkly comic memoir of a chaotic childhood with mentally ill parents

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Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs is an American author known for his darkly comic memoirs. Running with Scissors, about his bizarre childhood with his mother's psychiatrist, became a bestseller and was adapted into a film.

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