Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997)
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 endur...
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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...
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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 surre...
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William Seward Burroughs , poet and novelist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 5 February 1914 to parents from two important American families. Burroughs's mother, Laura Lee, was a direct descendan...
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William Seward Burroughs was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, to Perry Mortimer Burroughs, son of the industrialist who invented the cylinder that made the modern adding machine possible, and Laura Lee,...
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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...
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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, ...
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William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914. His grandfather had invented the modern adding machine. In 1950 William had left his town to escape from the conditions as a homosexual and a "Junky"...
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Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997)
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
William S(eward) Burroughs
