William S. Burroughs - Research Article from Beat Generation

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 202 pages of information about William S. Burroughs.

William S. Burroughs - Research Article from Beat Generation

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 202 pages of information about William S. Burroughs.
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(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 members of the Beat Generation. His most famous work, Naked Lunch (1959), is a nonlinear narrative involving drug addiction, homosexuality, and outrageous social and political satire. The bizarre events of Burroughs’s life and his unconventional writings are often intertwined in both the public imagination and the critical reception of his work.

Biographical Information

Burroughs was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Laura Lee Burroughs, a descendant of Robert E. Lee, and Mortimer P. Burroughs, whose family owned the Burroughs Corporation, manufacturers of adding machines. Ivy Ledbetter Lee was young Burroughs’s uncle and a pioneer in the field of public relations whose clients included John D. Rockefeller and Adolph...

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