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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Joan Vollmer (redirect from Joan Vollmer Burroughs)
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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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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from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs. Set in 1950s Mexico City, the film follows an outcast American expatriate...
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Queer (novel) (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
Queer is a 1985 novella by American author William S. Burroughs. It is partially a sequel to his 1953 novella Junkie. The novel begins with the introduction...
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William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll is a non-fiction book by American musician Casey Rae that examines the influence of the Beat writer...
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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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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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Naked Lunch (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
published as The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 antinovel by American author William S. Burroughs. The antinovel does not follow a clear linear plot, but is instead...
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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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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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James Grauerholz (category William S. Burroughs)
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs. Grauerholz worked on a full-length biography on Burroughs, but reportedly handed his writings...
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Burroughs is a 1983 documentary film directed by Howard Brookner about the Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs. Burroughs is the first and only...
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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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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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Kentucky Ham (category Novels by William S. Burroughs Jr.)
in 1973, was the second novel by William S. Burroughs, Jr., the son of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. Like its predecessor, Speed, the...
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magical practice developed by William S. Burroughs, primarily as a way of placing curses on people or places. Burroughs was a part of the chaos magic...
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Vignette (literature) (section William S. Burroughs)
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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The Yage Letters (category Books by William S. Burroughs)
authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. It was issued by City Lights Books. Most of the letters date back to 1953 and chronicle Burroughs' visit...
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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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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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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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on the National Register of Historic Places Burroughs (film), a documentary about William S. Burroughs Burrows (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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Blade Runner (a movie) (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
(a movie) is a science fiction novella by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1979. The novella began as a story treatment...
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Naked Lunch (film) (category William S. Burroughs)
Burroughs, Cronenberg, Thomas, James Grauerholz, and Hercules Bellville met in Tangiers in 1985. Grauerholz showed Cronenberg's films to Burroughs and...
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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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