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Article: William Seward Burroughs
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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William Seward Burroughs 1914-97, American novelist, b. St. Louis, grad. Harvard, 1936. He was an elder member of the
beat generation
.
Junkie
(1953), originally published under the pseudonym William Lee, and
Queer
(written 1953, pub. 1985) are autobiographical accounts of his drug addiction, homosexual experiences, and the accidental killing of his wife. His best-known novel,
Naked Lunch
(1959), is a surrealistic depiction of the addict's existence. Burroughs's violent and bizarre ...
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