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    Burroughs was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a grandson of inventor William Seward Burroughs I, who founded the Burroughs Corporation...
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  • William Seward Burroughs III (July 21, 1947 – March 3, 1981), also known as William S. Burroughs Jr. and Billy Burroughs, was an American novelist. He...
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  • This is a bibliography of the works of William S. Burroughs. Junkie (a.k.a. Junky) (1953) (ISBN 0-14-200316-6 – later reprint) Queer (written 1951–1953;...
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    William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York. Burroughs was the son of a mechanic...
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  • 1946, she began a relationship with William S. Burroughs, later becoming his common-law wife. In 1951, Burroughs killed Vollmer. He claimed, and shortly...
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  • Naked Lunch (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American Beat generation writer William S. Burroughs. The novel does not follow a clear linear plot, but is instead structured...
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  • William S. Burroughs: A Man Within is a 2010 independent American documentary film directed by Yony Leyser about William S. Burroughs, featuring previously...
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  • Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs which concluded 15 November 1968. The topics range from Scientology to Burroughs' opinions of other writers...
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  • Junkie (novel) (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    his later work. William S. Burroughs was the grandson of William Seward Burroughs I, who founded the Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs' family was financially...
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    machine invented by William Seward Burroughs (grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs). In 1904, six years after Burroughs' death, the company...
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  • Burroughs may also refer to: William Seward Burroughs I (1857–1898), American inventor, grandfather of the writer William S. Burroughs Jr. (1947–1981), American...
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  • by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs. Set in 1940s Mexico City, the film follows an outcast American expat...
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  • London: Plexus. ISBN 978-0-85965-455-5. Burroughs, William S. (1974). The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs. Random House. ISBN 9780802100573. Carroll...
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  • Atwood, Alice Walker, Ernest Hemingway, V. K. N., Sandra Cisneros, William S. Burroughs, and Tim O'Brien. Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer whose works...
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  • William Burrough may refer to: William S. Burroughs, American novelist and literary figure William Burrough (cricketer), English cricketer William Borough...
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  • social circle of friends and fellow writers, such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Kerouac said that "beat" had multiple meanings...
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    sexual liberation and exploration. Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959), and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among...
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  • Queer (novel) (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    short novel (written between 1951 and 1953, published in 1985) by William S. Burroughs. It is partially a sequel to his earlier novel, Junkie, which ends...
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  • The Nova Trilogy (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    Timothy S. Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs. New York: University of California, 1998. p. 110 Tonnies, Mac. "William S. Burroughs Book...
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  • The Soft Machine (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    The Soft Machine is a 1961 novel by American author William S. Burroughs. It was originally composed using the cut-up technique partly from manuscripts...
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  • on the National Register of Historic Places Burroughs (film), a documentary about William S. Burroughs Burrows (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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  • And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became...
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    was really good." In 1992, Cobain contacted William S. Burroughs about a possible collaboration. Burroughs responded by sending him a recording of "The...
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  • The "Priest" They Called Him (category William S. Burroughs albums)
    William S. Burroughs while a senior in high school, and Burroughs' writing became an influence on his songwriting. In 1992 Cobain contacted Burroughs...
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    as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian...
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    1880s to early 20th century. The book was a major influence upon William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers. The book tells of Black's experiences in...
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  • Cities of the Red Night (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    Cities of the Red Night is a 1981 novel by American author William S. Burroughs. His first full-length novel since The Wild Boys (1971), it is part of...
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    Cut-up technique (category William S. Burroughs)
    development between Burroughs and Brion Gysin. William Burroughs cited T. S. Eliot's 1922 poem, The Waste Land, and John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy, which...
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  • Speed (novel) (category Novels by William S. Burroughs Jr.)
    first of three published works by William S. Burroughs Jr., the son of the Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. Speed is an autobiographical novel...
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    University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously...
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