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William S. Burroughs (born February 5, 1914, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died August 2, 1997, Lawrence, Kansas) was an American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world.
Jan 26, 2014 · A Mexican scholar of the Beats, Jorge García-Robles, details the louche milieu in another new book, “The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico” (Minnesota). He writes that Burroughs ...
Feb 5, 2022 · Derek Flynn. Sat Feb 5 2022 - 06:04. After Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas DeQuincy, William Burroughs (who died on this day in 1997) is probably the third most famous drug addict in literary ...
Aug 4, 1997 · William S. Burroughs, a renegade writer of the Beat Generation who stunned readers and inspired adoring cultists with his 1959 book ''Naked Lunch,'' died on Saturday evening at Lawrence...
Feb 5, 2014 · William S. Burroughs was a counterculture icon: In more than two dozen books, including the landmark novel Naked Lunch, he laid down an original vision that influenced everyone from political...
Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology (1978) Ah Pook is Here, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night (1981) - omnibus ( ISBN 0-312-27846-2) The Burroughs File (1984) Three Novels - Grove Press omnibus of The Soft Machine, Nova Express and The Wild Boys (1988) ( ISBN 0802130844)
The Beat author scandalised literature with books like Naked Lunch. In honour of his centenary, his friends talk to Jane Ciabattari about his later years. William S Burroughs was born 100...
