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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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  • 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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  • 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 novel by William S. Burroughs. Set in 1940s Mexico City, the film follows an outcast American expat...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Ken Babbs, and Bill Morgan. Wills is the author of Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult,' a study of the Beat author's decades-long relationship...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Brion Gysin (category William S. Burroughs)
    of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine...
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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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    Ginsberg, Waits and Wilson approached William S. Burroughs to pen the lyrics. They flew to Kansas to meet with Burroughs, who agreed to join the project. Waits...
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    complicate his connection to the community. Knight's eighth book, William S. Burroughs vs. the Qur'an was released on April 1, 2012, by Soft Skull/Counterpoint...
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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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  • 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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