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William Seward Burroughs II (/ ˈ b ʌr oʊ z /; 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 short stories and four collections of essays, and ...
Oct 5, 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 ...
Feb 4, 2019 · 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 ...
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 ...
May 23, 2018 · William S. Burroughs. Novelist, multimedia artist. For the Record …. Selected discography. Sources. William S. Burroughs is one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Books like Naked Lunch, Junky, The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Ticket that Exploded, Cities of the Red Night, and The Western Lands pushed the form of the novel to its outermost limits and introduced ...
William S. Burroughs. , The Art of Fiction No. 36. Interviewed by Conrad Knickerbocker. Issue 35, Fall 1965. 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 ...
By RICHARD SEVERO. 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 evening at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kan. He was 83. The cause of his death was a heart attack that he suffered on Friday, his publicist, Ira ...
The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985) (ISBN 1-55970-210-9) Selected Letters (1993) The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959 (1993) (ISBN 978-0330330749) Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs (2000; ISBN 0-8021-3778-4) Conversations with William S. Burroughs (2000) (ISBN 1578061830)
Early life and education. Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent family in St. Louis, Missouri.His grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I, founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation.
William S. Burroughs was educated at private schools in St. Louis and New Mexico and received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1936. He briefly attended medical school in Germany and returned ...
