William Burroughs Biography

William Burroughs biography

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NAME: William Seward Burroughs
OCCUPATION: Author
BIRTH DATE: February 05, 1914
DEATH DATE: August 02, 1997
EDUCATION: Harvard University

PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Louis, Missouri
PLACE OF DEATH: Lawrence, Kansas

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William Burroughs was a writer known for his novels of the drug subculture, such as Naked Lunch and Junky.

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William Burroughs used the pen name William Lee in his first published book, Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (1953; reissued as Junky in 1977), an account of the addict's life. He experimented with the structure of the novel in The Naked Lunch (Paris, 1959; U.S. 1962), a grotesque satire of this world, completing it after drug treatment, and it became his most revered work.