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   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 ...

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   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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   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.' Search 2024 Olympians

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   Learn about the life and work of William S. Burroughs, a writer and actor who was part of the Beat Generation. Explore his early years, his drug addiction, his collaborations with Kerouac and Ginsberg, and his films.

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1
   • Birth Place: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

   • Death Date: January 1, 1
   • Death Place: Lawrence, Kansas, USA

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   Jan 26, 2014 · Vollmer’s parents took Julie into their home, in Albany, and she dropped out of her stepfather’s life. Burroughs sent Billy to be raised by Laura and Mortimer, in St. Louis, and joined them ...

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   William S Burroughs was born 100 years ago on 5 February 1914. Descended from a well-to-do family from St Louis, Missouri, he was a Harvard graduate, class of 1936. His early drug-fueled exploits ...

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   William S. Burroughs, in a 1984 article for The New York Times Book Review, gave his own assessment of his peculiar body of work. Much of it, he wrote, ''is intended to be funny.'' These are among his most important books. Junkie (Ace, 1953) Naked Lunch (Olympia, 1959) The Soft Machine (Olympia, 1961)

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   Who is William Seward Burroughs?

   • ''Bill simply doesn't like most people.'' William Seward Burroughs was born on Feb. 5, 1914, in St. Louis, the son of Mortimer P. Burroughs, the owner of a plate-glass company, and Laura Lee Burroughs, who came from a prominent Southern family.

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   Where did John Burroughs live?

   • As a boy, Burroughs lived on Pershing Avenue (now Pershing Place) in St. Louis' Central West End. He attended John Burroughs School in St. Louis, where his first published essay – "Personal Magnetism", which revolved around telepathic mind-control – was printed in the John Burroughs Review in 1929.

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   How did Burroughs become a village character?

   • “In Lawrence, Burroughs became a village character. Everyone had an imitation of the old man, including the nasalised, creaky Missouri accent. Before his health failed, he could be seen walking to the grocery store for cat food. He held regular salons for visiting artists and everyday friends.

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   What was Burroughs's most emotional work?

   • The most emotional work in a generally icy œuvre, it was written around the time, in 1951, of the most notorious event in Burroughs’s life: his fatal shooting of Vollmer, in a drunken game of “William Tell.” García-Robles and Miles agree in their accounts of Vollmer’s death.

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