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William S. Burroughs

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)

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William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a postmodern author who influenced underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs's work is experimental and features unreliable narrators. Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique. His writing also engaged frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, constant preoccupations in his fiction and real life.

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Revista Panorama Número 297 de Enero, 1973. via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

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Occupation: writer, poet, novelist, essayist
Citizenship: United States
Born: February 5, 1914
Died: August 2, 1997, August 11, 1997
Website: http://realitystudio.org/

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