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The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs

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Author Biography

Name: William S. Burroughs
Variant Name: William Seward Burroughs, William Lee, Willy Lee
Birth Date: February 5, 1914
Death Date: August 2, 1997
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Place of Death: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William S(eward) Burroughs
14794 words, approx. 49.3 pages
Since the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William S. Burroughs has been well known as a legendary figure of the Beat Generation and as an important writer of experimental fiction. As a Beat writer, Burroughs was part of a seminal, postwar literary an...
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Biography of William S(eward) Burroughs
11474 words, approx. 38.2 pages
Fifty years after Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs first met in Manhattan, New York University sponsored a conference celebrating the legacy of the Beat Generation. Burroughs, whose picture appeared prominently in several places on...
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Biography of William S. Burroughs
7736 words, approx. 25.8 pages
An innovative and controversial author of experimental fiction, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is best known for Naked Lunch (1959), a bizarre account of his fourteen-year drug addiction and a surrealistic indictment of middle-class American mores. Wil...
 


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The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs, published in 1987, is a fiction novel which is the final part of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads. The reference is to the western bank of the Nile River, which...


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Western Life Lands Olympic Contract Western Life Ins. Co. has been awarded the contract from the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to serve as the principal health insurer for America's athletes through 1992. Under the terms of the agreement, Western Life...
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The Western Lands. (book reviews)
03/19/1988: 2,231 words, approx. 7 pages
THE WESTERN LANDS In Tangier in the 1950s, then an exotic outpost for writers and artists and a lively marketplace for drugs and sex, William S. Burroughs was known by the locals as "el hombre invisible," the invisible man. Despite his shadowy...
 


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