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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
14,794 words, approx. 49 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...
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Biography of William S(eward) Burroughs
11,474 words, approx. 38 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...
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Biography of William S. Burroughs
7,736 words, approx. 26 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....
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997) Summary
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During the 1950s, William S. Burroughs blazed many trails to and from the elucidation of human suffering, and his obsession with the means to this end became an enduring facet of popular culture. He exuded the heavy aura of a misogynistic, homosexual,...
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William S. Burroughs Summary
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William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) (Full name William Seward Burroughs. Also wrote under the pseudonym William Lee) American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs was one of the founding...
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William S. Burroughs Information
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This article is about the late 20th century American novelist. For the inventor, his grandfather, see William Seward Burroughs I . For his son, see William S. Burroughs, Jr. William S. Burroughs Burroughs1983 cropped.jpg}} | William S. Burroughs at his...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
The Day in Gossip: Sheryl Crow Kecks Over Lashley; Trump Junior Sues!
11/15/2007: 312 words, approx. 1 pages
Sheryl Crow, eyes rolling, apparently scoffed at mention of ex-beaux Lance Armstrong’s Ashley-Olsen antics; Tory Burch, on the other hand, doesn’t care. [Page Six] Ethiopian woman claims to be the mother of Zahara Jolie-Pitt, and she wants to “be with her.” [Rush & Malloy:...
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The New York Observer
JT Leroy and his Literary Sex Slaves
10/10/2005: 283 words, approx. 1 pages
The Transom was, of course, entranced by today's JT Leroy semi-expose in New York magazine, even though Serena Torrey, the icy blonde vixen PR woman at New York magazine wouldn't send over advance on it last Friday, or even arrange to have the author comment...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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William S. Burroughs
11,958 words, approx. 40 pages
[In the following essay, Eburne examines the influence of the Cold War-era ideological construct of "otherness" in Naked Lunch and in Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans, comparing its effect on the subjectivity of each novel.]
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Critical Essay by Edward J. Ahearn
9,833 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Ahearn places Burroughs in the tradition of apocalyptic writing that includes William Blake and Lautréamont.
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Critical Essay by Robin Lydenberg
9,823 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Lydenberg analyzes Burroughs's literary voice as it is expressed on his experimental tape recordings.
 
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