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William S. Burroughs American writer William S. Burroughs, 1977.

William S. Burroughs

American writer
Also known as: William Lee, William Seward Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs (born February 5, 1914, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.ā€”died August 2, 1997, Lawrence, Kansas) was an American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world. His sexual explicitness (he was an avowed and outspoken homosexual) and the frankness with which he dealt with his experiences as a drug addict won him a following among writers of the Beat movement. Burroughs was the grandson of the...

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