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  1. William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was one of the foremost writers of the Beat Generation. He is best known for his experimental novel Naked Lunch, a subversive and highly controversial book that underwent a court case under the U.S. sodomy laws. In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1984 ...

  2. William Seward Burroughs II ( / ˈbʌroʊz /; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. [2] [3] [4] Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of ...

    • Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs.
    • Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1) by William S. Burroughs.
    • The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William S. Burroughs.
    • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.
  3. 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)

  4. William S. Burroughs was an American noted published author of fictional novels. He was born on February 5, 1914 and passed away on August 2, 1997. He also went by the name William Lee. The ‘S’ in his name stands for Seward. He was born one of two sons to his father Mortimer Perry Burroughs and his wife, Laura Hamon Lee.

  5. Jul 29, 2024 · 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. His sexual explicitness (he was an avowed and outspoken homosexual) and the frankness with which ...

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  7. Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine month...

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