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Early life and education. Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons born to Mortimer Perry Burroughs (June 16, 1885 – January 5, 1965) and Laura Hammon Lee (August 5, 1888 – October 20, 1970). His family was of prominent English ancestry in St. Louis, Missouri.
William S. Burroughs, one of the three seminal writers of the Beat Generation (the other two being his friends Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg), was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 5, 1914, to the son of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
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.
Apr 2, 2014 · William S. Burroughs was a Beat Generation writer known for his startling, nontraditional accounts of drug culture, most famously in the book 'Naked Lunch.'
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 Memorial...
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, 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...
William S. Burroughs, one of the three seminal writers of the Beat Generation (the other two being his friends Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg), was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 5, 1914, to the son of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
William S Burroughs scandalised literature with books like Naked Lunch. In honour of his centenary, his friends talk to Jane Ciabattari about his later years.
May 23, 2018 · William S. Burroughs [1] Novelist, multimedia artist For the Record… [2] Selected discography [3] Sources [4] William S. Burroughs [5] is one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century.
Aug 2, 1997 · William Seward Burroughs II, (also known by his pen name William Lee) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists ...
William Seward Burroughs II (; 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.
Feb 5, 2022 · 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 history.
Oct 8, 2009 · First published 50 years ago, William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch is a dark, wild ride through the terror of heroin addiction and withdrawal, filled with paranoia, erotica and...
Discover William S. Burroughs famous and rare quotes. Share William S. Burroughs quotations about writing, giving and cats. "What does the money machine eat? It eats..."
With a life as mischievous as his prose, William S. Burroughs—who was born in St. Louis, Missouri on February 5, 1914 —was destined for counterculture notoriety. Here are 10 facts about the...
Feb 5, 2014 · William S. Burroughs was born 100 years ago today. His books included "Naked Lunch." He was a member of the Beat Generation, writers who rose to prominence in the 1950s, for the most part,...
Naked Lunch (first published as The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American Beat generation writer William S. Burroughs. The novel does not follow a clear linear plot, but is instead structured as a series of non-chronological "routines".
William Seward Burroughs was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation and not too long ago merged with Sperry Univac to form Unisys.
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz is a closet screenplay by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1970.. Based upon the life (or, to be more precise, the death) of 1930s German-Jewish-American gangster Dutch Schultz, the novel uses as its springboard Schultz's surreal last words, which were delivered in the midst of high-fever delirium after being mortally shot while ...
illiam 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...
Complete order of William S. Burroughs books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Firecrackers and whistles sounded the advent of the New Year of 1965 in St. Louis. Stripteasers ran from the bars in Gaslight Square to dance in the street when midnight came. Burroughs, who had watched television alone that night, was asleep in his room at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St....
William Seward Burroughs I William S. Burroughs, Jr. William Seward Burroughs, cunoscut și sub pseudonimul William Lee, (n. 5 februarie 1914, Saint Louis, Missouri, SUA – d. 2 august 1997, Lawrence (d), Kansas, SUA) a fost un romancier, nuvelist, eseist și orator american. Burroughs a fost una dintre figurile importante care au ...
I really wanted this documentary available on YT because it's one of my absolute most favorite Burroughs' docs out there.
William S. Burroughs, född 5 februari 1914 i St. Louis, Missouri, död 2 augusti 1997 i Lawrence, Kansas, var en amerikansk författare, bland annat till den hallucinatoriska kultromanen Den nakna lunchen ( Naked Lunch) och den självbiografiska Tjacket ( Junkie ). Burroughs räknas som en av skaparna av den så kallade beatnik -litteraturen.
Burroughs nasceu em 1914, sendo o mais novo dos dois filhos nascidos de Mortimer Perry Burroughs e Laura Hammon Lee. [2] Os Burroughs eram uma família proeminente em St. Louis (Missouri).Seu avô, William Seward Burroughs I, fundou a empresa Máquinas de Somar Burroughs, que evoluiu para a Burroughs Corporation.A mãe de Burroughs, Laura Lee Hammon, era filha de um pastor cuja família ...
William S. Burroughs II en David Woodard met Dreamachine, circa 1997 [ 1] :98–101. William Seward Burroughs II ( Saint Louis ( Missouri )), 5 februari 1914 – Lawrence ( Kansas ), 2 augustus 1997) was een Amerikaans schrijver. Hij was, naast Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg en Gregory Corso, een van de bekendste schrijvers van de Beat Generation .
1 day ago · It’s based on a seminal William S. Burroughs novella. An adaptation of the legendary writer’s semi-autobiographical pageturner of the same name from 1985, the release will, per its synopsis ...
12 hours ago · Before Williams S. Burroughs became…William S. Burroughs, the outlaw nihilist legend who channeled America’s madness in “Naked Lunch,” he wrote two short, realistic, diary-like novels that ...
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