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- William_S._Burroughs abstract "William Seward Burroughs II (/ˈbʌroʊz/; also known by his pen name William Lee; (1914-02-05)February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997(1997-08-02)) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century". His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote 18 novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films.He was born to a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, grandson of the inventor and founder of the Burroughs Corporation, William Seward Burroughs I, and nephew of public relations manager Ivy Lee. Burroughs began writing essays and journals in early adolescence. He left home in 1932 to attend Harvard University, studied English, and anthropology as a postgraduate, and later attended medical school in Vienna. After being turned down by the Office of Strategic Services and U.S. Navy in 1942 to serve in World War II, he dropped out and became afflicted with the drug addiction that affected him for the rest of his life, while working a variety of jobs. In 1943 while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the mutually influential foundation of which grew into the Beat Generation, and later the 1960s counterculture.Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived throughout Mexico City, London, Paris, Berlin, the South American Amazon and Tangier in Morocco. In the introduction to Queer, a novel written in 1953 but not published until 1985, Burroughs states, "I am forced to the appalling conclusion that I would have never become a writer but for Joan’s death ... [S]o the death of Joan brought me into contact with the invader, the Ugly Spirit, and maneuvered me into a lifelong struggle, in which I had no choice except to write my way out". (Queer, 1985, p.xxii). Indeed, Burroughs accidentally killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City, and was consequently convicted of manslaughter.Finding success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), Burroughs is perhaps best known for his third novel Naked Lunch (1959), a controversy-fraught work that underwent a court case under the U.S. sodomy laws. With Brion Gysin, he also popularized the literary cut-up technique in works such as The Nova Trilogy (1961–64).In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1984 was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. Jack Kerouac called Burroughs the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift", a reputation he owes to his "lifelong subversion" of the moral, political and economic systems of modern American society, articulated in often darkly humorous sardonicism. J. G. Ballard considered Burroughs to be "the most important writer to emerge since the Second World War", while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius".Burroughs had one child, William Seward Burroughs III (1947–1981), with his second wife Joan Vollmer. He died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, after suffering a heart attack in 1997.".
- William_S._Burroughs alias "Burroughs, William Seward II; Lee, William (pseudonym)".
- William_S._Burroughs almaMater Harvard_University.
- William_S._Burroughs birthDate "1914-02-05".
- William_S._Burroughs birthName "William Seward Burroughs II".
- William_S._Burroughs birthPlace St._Louis.
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- William_S._Burroughs deathDate "1997-08-02".
- William_S._Burroughs deathPlace Lawrence,_Kansas.
- William_S._Burroughs deathYear "1997".
- William_S._Burroughs genre Paranoid_fiction.
- William_S._Burroughs genre Satire.
- William_S._Burroughs influenced Alan_Moore.
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- William_S._Burroughs influenced Gus_Van_Sant.
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- William_S._Burroughs influenced Irvine_Welsh.
- William_S._Burroughs influenced J._G._Ballard.
- William_S._Burroughs influenced Jack_Kerouac.
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- William_S._Burroughs influenced Kurt_Cobain.
- William_S._Burroughs influenced Lou_Reed.
- William_S._Burroughs influenced Lydia_Lunch.
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- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Alfred_Korzybski.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Arthur_Rimbaud.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Brion_Gysin.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Dashiell_Hammett.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Denton_Welch.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Henry_Miller.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Jack_Black_(author).
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Jean-Paul_Sartre.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Jean_Genet.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Jonathan_Swift.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Joseph_Conrad.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9line.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Oswald_Spengler.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Samuel_Beckett.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Tristan_Tzara.
- William_S._Burroughs influencedBy Wilhelm_Reich.
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- William_S._Burroughs movement Beat_Generation.
- William_S._Burroughs movement Postmodern_literature.
- William_S._Burroughs notableWork Naked_Lunch.
- William_S._Burroughs pseudonym "William Lee".
- William_S._Burroughs relative Ivy_Lee.
- William_S._Burroughs relative William_Seward_Burroughs_I.
- William_S._Burroughs spouse Joan_Vollmer.
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- William_S._Burroughs almaMater "Harvard University".
- William_S._Burroughs alternativeNames "Burroughs, William Seward II; Lee, William".
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