(From the publisher) "I was addicted to Bewitched as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha would say, 'Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer, wipe his forehead with a monogrammed handkerchief and say, 'Better make it a double.' " (from Chapter Two)

You may not know it, but you’ve met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twentysomething guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn’t really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr. are immediately dashed by grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click and that’s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life—and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that’s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is true. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a Higher Power.

About the Author
(From the author's Web site) Augusten Burroughs was born in Pittsburgh, PA. in 1965. Raised in Western Massachusetts, he has lived in Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and New York.

Augusten has been a dog trainer, candy store clerk, waiter, sail cutter (for one day), store detective and, from the age of 19, an advertising copywriter.

Augusten also happens to be the 18th grandson of King James the Second of Scotland. Although this has done him exactly no good in life.

He now lives in Manhattan and Western Massachsetts with his better half Dennis and their two dogs, Bentley and CowCow. Augusten now writes full time.