Turcottes originally sought damages of $2 million for invasion of privacy, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Burroughs defended his work as "entirely accurate," but agreed to call the work a "book" (instead of "memoir") in the author's note, to alter the acknowledgments page in future editions to recognize the Turcotte family's conflicting memories of described events, and express regret for "any unintentional harm" to the Turcotte family. In August 2007, when the suit was settled, Burroughs stated: I consider this not only a personal victory but a victory for all memoirists. I still maintain that the book is an entirely accurate memoir, and that it was not fictionalized or sensationalized in any way. I did not embellish or invent elements. We had a very strong case because I had the truth on my side. In October 2007, Burroughs further stated that he felt vindicated by the settlement: I'm not at all sorry that I wrote it. And you know, the suit settled – it settled in my favor. I didn't change a word of the memoir, not one word of it. It's still a memoir, it's marketed as a memoir, [the Turcottes] agreed one hundred percent that it is a memoir. Film and television Running with Scissors was made into a film in 2006. It was directed by Ryan Murphy, produced by Brad Pitt, and starred Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Evan Rachel Wood. Bening was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role. Bibliography 2000 – Sellevision () (fiction) 2002 – Running with Scissors () 2003 – Dry () 2004 – Magical Thinking () 2006 – Possible Side Effects () 2008 – A Wolf at the Table () 2009 – You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas () 2011 – Take Five: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay () 2012 – This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike. () 2016 – Lust & Wonder: A Memoir () 2019 - Toil & Trouble: A Memoir () Contributions 2007 – Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's – John Elder Robison () (foreword) See also LGBT culture in New York City List of LGBT people from New York City Literary analysis References External links 1965 births Living people 20th-century American memoirists 20th-century American novelists American