Augusten Burroughs

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Burroughs, 37, came to advertising as a teenager with a GED and left a year and a half ago as an award-winning copywriter and author of the best-seller Running With Scissors, an account of his crazy childhood. In between he made the rounds of big-name shops (Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi & Saatchi and DDB among them), working for clients including Beck’s, the Beef Council, UPS and American Express. And he drank, prolifically—in his new memoir, Dry, some 300 empty bottles of scotch pile up in his Manhattan apartment before his agency boss sends him to rehab.

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