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William S. Burroughs William Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, the grandson of the inventor of the Burroughs adding machine. After his graduation from Harvard, he lived in Chicago and New York on an income of two hundred dollars a month from his parents. He met Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsberg in New York City around Christmas 1943 shortly after Ginsberg began studying at Columbia, and Burroughs impressed them with his erudition, as well as his sardonic humor and reserved poise. Older than the others in the group, he took on the role of teacher, encouraging Kerouac and Ginsberg in their attempts to write fiction and poetry. Although Burroughs collaborated on a humorous sketch with a classmat, Kells Elvins, at Harvard and completed a short novel written in the style of Dashiell Hammett with Kerouac, both works were rejected by publishers, and Burroughs did not think of himself as a writer. Instead, his search for an identity led him to deliberately seek out a criminal life. In the hope that he would feel at home in a "community of outlaws," Burroughs began buying stolen goods, including morphine Syrettes, and became addicted to morphine. In 1947 he began to live with Joan Vollmer, another member of the group around the Columbia campus, and they had a son William S. Burroughs, Jr. Joan was addicted to Benzedrine, and they moved to New Orleans, Texas, and Mexico City where drugs were more easily obtainable.

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William S. Burroughs (United States, b. 1914), Traveler on the Yellow Wave front), 1982, gelatin-silver and chromogenic prints and paint on plywood with shotgun holes, 25 1/8 x 12 1/2 in., lent by the Grinstein Family. Asked how he got into the paintings [Burroughs] replied: "Usually I get in by a port of entry, as I call it. It is often a face through whose eyes the picture opens into a landscape and I go literally right through that eye into that landscape." In July , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art premieres Ports of Entry - William S. Burroughs and the Arts, the first retrospective of the art of William S. Burroughs. On display are 153 works, spanning his 1960s and early 1970s photocollages, scrapbooks, and collaborations with Brion Gysin, and his later shotgun art and recent abstract painting. The exhibition explores how Burroughs's work has influenced today's cultural landscape, resulting in the absorption of his ideas and routines into newer art, advertising, and popular culture. Also on view are the works Burroughs produced in collaboration with David Bradshaw, George Condo, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, Philip Taaffe, and Robert Wilson. Portraits of Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, and Kate Simon are displayed, as are works by other artists that provide a context for Burroughs's own work. Primarily known as a novelist, William S. Burroughs is far more than a writer of imaginative prose and speculative fiction. Over the years, his revolutionary literary tactics have led him to margins of activity where genres cease to matter, where the distinctions between words and images blend together, where paragraphs become filmic montage, and where shotgun blasts become paintings. At the core of Burroughs's art is the "cut-up" technique that he and Gysin developed following the publication of Burroughs's novel

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Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Other languages: Nederlands Deutsch William S. Burroughs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Seward Burroughs February 5 August 2 ) was an American author and poet. Born in St. Louis Missouri , William Seward Burroughs was the grandson of the William Seward Burroughs who founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation . Burroughs' mother, Laura Lee Burroughs, was the daughter of a distinguished minister whose family claimed to be descendants of Robert E. Lee Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 1.1 Quotes 1.2 Works 1.3 Recordings ... 2 External Links Biography He has long been associated with Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac . One of his most famous works is Naked Lunch . He is also well known for his later use of the cut-up technique of using pieces of various texts to create a new one (which Burroughs developed with the poet and artist Brion Gysin who introduced him to the idea), as well as what Burroughs called "

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rotten Library Biographies Authors William S. Burroughs As a young man, William S. Burroughs already had a reputation as a brilliant, rather strange, and slightly sinister character. Although he'd been born into a well to do family of some distinction (his grandfather had founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company), and had been exceedingly well educated (including Harvard University), the young Bill Burroughs had tossed it all aside and moved to New York where he involved himself with the criminal underworld apparently just for the kicks. While most families might have kicked up a fuss and cut off his generous allowance, Bill's family seemed to accept it and just let him get on with being Bill. At some point he did manage to go to Vienna to study medicine, though only for six months scampering home just ahead of the Nazis. In 1940, he spent a month in a mental hospital, after cutting off the end of his pinky finger to impress his male lover. Two years later, he was drafted to serve in World War II. But apparently the United States Army didn't want former mental patients let alone former gay mental patients fighting and dying for the Red, White, and Blue. Bill was given a civilian disability discharge and sent on his way.

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Main Page See live article Alphabetical index William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs February 5 August 2 ) was an American author and poet. Born in St. Louis Missouri , William Seward Burroughs was the grandson of the William Seward Burroughs who founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation . Burroughs' mother, Laura Lee Burroughs, was the daughter of a distinguished minister whose family claimed to be descendants of Robert E. Lee Table of contents 1 Biography 1.1 Quotes 1.2 Works 1.3 Recordings ... 2 External Links Biography He has long been associated with Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac . One of his most famous works is The Naked Lunch . He is also well known for his later use of the cut-up technique of using pieces of various texts to create a new one (which Burroughs developed with the poet and artist Brion Gysin who introduced him to the idea), as well as what Burroughs called "word holes" - repeated phrases or sentences from which reading can continue at any other identical phrase or sentences in the text, a form of hypertext He attended Harvard University and graduated in 1936. He summarized his college experience in the prologue to Junkie, "I hated the University and I hated the town it was in. Everything about the place was dead. The University was a fake English setup taken over by the graduates of fake English public schools..."

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Histories Index Francis Bacon Jon Robin Baitz Josephine Baker ... Raymond Burr William Burroughs Charles Busch Judith Butler Eleanor Butler Dick Button ... Junky by William S. Burroughs Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs by William S. Burroughs , James Grauerholz (Editor) William S. Burroughs Online Resources Texts: William S. Burroughs Texts: Queer Histories Texts: Authors Index ... Suggest a Name Names Index: A B C D ... Scholars Index Gentleman Junkie : The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs by Graham Caveney There have been several solid conventional biographies of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), and this imaginative consideration of his "life and legacy" does not seek to replace them. Instead, British scholar Graham Caveney concentrates on Burroughs as a cultural phenomenon whose unsettling ability to depict personal degradation with modernist detachment first awed contemporaries in the beat generation and continued through the 1990s to inspire artists as diverse as grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, painter Keith Haring, and film director David Cronenberg. Even before Naked Lunch Wendy Smith The Beat Hotel : Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963

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13. William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs. Kerouac and Ginsberg had writing careers to keep themselves busy; by his midthirties William S. Burroughs had still not begun to write. http://www.beatmuseum.org/burroughs/williamsburroughs.html

William S. Burroughs Born: February 5, 1914 Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri Texts from Levi Asher Literary Kicks TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM BURROUGHS William Seward Burroughs was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation and not too long ago merged with Sperry Univac to form Unisys. (I could hyperlink this to comp.ancient.mainframes or something, but I think I'll skip this link). Burroughs grew up in St. Louis, where his upper-class midwestern background did not suit his tastes. A bookworm with strong homoerotic urges, a fascination with guns and crime and a natural inclination to break every rule he could find, there seemed to be no way Burroughs could ever fit into normal society. His parents seemed to accept this, and after he graduated from Harvard they continued to support him financially as he experimented with various lifestyles. In his early thirties he traveled to New York and decided to pursue freedom by joining the city's gangster underworld. He became a heroin addict quite intentionally, in the process meeting the prototypical junkie drifter and future Beat hero Herbert Huncke. His St. Louis friends David Kammerer and Lucien Carr introduced him to a crowd of crazed young nonconformists studying at Columbia University, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Burroughs' future common-law wife, Joan Vollmer Adams. He was older than them, but they were impressed by his obvious intelligence and worldly cynicism. Kerouac described him as 'Tall, 6 foot 1, strange, inscrutable because ordinary looking (scrutable), like a shy bank clerk with a patrician thinlipped cold bluelipped face.'

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William S. Burroughs: biography, bibliography, filmography, links INTERNAL LINKS William S. Burroughs audio amazon uk books Harvard University Allen Ginsberg ... site map William S Burroughs Biographical Notes William Seward Burroughs II was born 5 February 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri , into a world of relative wealth and comfort from the profits of the Burroughs Adding Machine Corporation. His grandfather, after whom he was named, was the inventor of the adding machine. [ there's more biography below this image...] tribute to william s. burroughs collage by patrick deese At 8 years of age, uses his first gun, writes first story, "The Autobiography of a Wolf." Refuses editorial advice of parents to change autobiography to biography. When Burroughs is 13, he discovers the autobiography of Jack Black You Can't Win , and becomes enamored of the outlaw, underground lifestyle. Black introduces him to the idea of the being a member of the Johnson Family First published in the John Burroughs Review in 1929. A short essay entitled "Personal Magnetism". He considers it an early attempt at debunking control systems.

16. The William S. Burroughs Files We re offering a Web Memorial. The william S. burroughs Files InterWebZone. Ports of Entry william S. burroughs and the Arts, an exhibit and symposium. http://www.hyperreal.org/wsb/

William Seward Burroughs, born February 5, 1914, died August 2, 1997, at age 83. He suffered a heart attack and died about 24 hours later, in his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas. We're offering a Web Memorial The William S. Burroughs Files Inter Web Zone This project isn't comprehensive or very up to date but has served as a collaborative unofficial source of electronic Burroughs info since 1991. Buroughs' work and especially his experiments with tape and literary cutups have had a profound effect on me, directly and indiretcly via the work of Daevid Allen, Brian Eno, David Bowie and others. W e're offering a memorial zone with a comments/guestbook area for you to share your thoughts, memories and anecdotes about WSB. This Burroughs site started as a list of Buroughs related recordings on Usenet in 1991 and it grew into the first site on the web dedicated to Burroughs and his work. I've long since given up hope for keeping this project up to date. But I'll spend a few days trying to offer a better multimedia retrospective here since the passing of Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg this year are significant events to me.

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Literary Kicks Visit the general discussion board or view list of boards William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation, which made huge, now outdated mainframe computers. The Burroughs corporation eventually merged with Sperry Univac and got absorbed into Unisys. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St. Louis , Missouri. His upper-class midwestern background did not suit his tastes. A bookworm with strong homoerotic urges, a fascination with guns and crime and a natural inclination to break every rule he could find, there seemed to be no way Burroughs could ever fit into normal society. His parents seemed to accept this, and after he graduated from Harvard they continued to support him financially as he experimented with various lifestyles. In his early thirties he traveled to New York and decided to pursue freedom by joining the city's gangster underworld. He became a heroin addict quite intentionally, in the process meeting the prototypical junkie drifter and future Beat hero Herbert Huncke . His St. Louis friends David Kammerer and Lucien Carr introduced him to a crowd of crazed young nonconformists studying at Columbia University , including Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac and Burroughs' future common-law wife

18. L'Arengario. Beat Generation: William S. Burroughs Propone la biografia, la bibliografia, alcuni brani e link a risorse correlate. http://www.arengario.it/mostre/beats/burrough.htm

BEAT GENERATION William S. Burroughs (St. Louis 1914 - 1997) Bibliografia Junkie The Naked Lunch Minutes to go (in collaborazione conS. Beiles, G. Corso e B. Gysin) Exterminator The Soft Machine The Ticket That Exploded The Yage Letters Nova Express W.S. Burroughs (1964) Fotografia di Roy Kuhlmann Joan Vollmer Adams (1944) Bill Morgan The Beat Generation in New York , San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1997; pag. 9) "Niente è vero. Tutto è permesso" Lettere dello Yage , Milano, Sugar, 1967; pp. 100-101). "Burroughs conosce bene la società borghese alla quale si è sottratto in modo così decisivo. E' figlio del famoso Burroughs progettista e produttore di macchine da calcolo e contabili, così passò un'infanzia felice, o per lo meno economicamente felice, a Saint Louis. La depressione intaccò la situazione economica della sua famiglia, ma non fino alla rovina; e infatti egli continuò regolarmente i suoi studi. Ancora per il decennio che seguì la depressione continuò a vivere inserito nella società; studiava seriamente poesia e etnologia, e all'università di Harvard si laureò in letteratura inglese con una tesi in antropologia. Nella scia di tanti espatriati americani andò a trascorrere un anno in Europa; ma nel 1936 si ritrovò in America, con un assegno mensile di centocinquanta dollari che gli veniva dall'eredità paterna e il peso di ventidue anni di angosce e di andirivieni psicilogici che né la rispettabilità della sua famiglia né l'ottimismo del New Deal americano né gli psicanalisti nascenti riuscirono a risolvere.

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20. The Beat Page - William S. Burroughs The Beat Page is the best resource on the net for all things Beat. writers to emerge from the Beat period, william S. burroughs has led an extremely interesting life. on February 5, 1914, burroughs grew up under fairly comfortable circumstances http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/burroughs.html

Quick Fix The Place of Dead Roads (excerpt) The Naked Lunch (excerpt) Other Writers: Richard Brautigan Charles Bukowski Neal Cassady Gregory Corso Robert Creeley Diane di Prima Robert Duncan William Everson Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg John Clellon Holmes LeRoi Jones Bob Kaufman Jack Kerouac Ken Kesey Philip Lamantia Denise Levertov Michael McClure Frank O'Hara Peter Orlovsky Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Rexroth Gary Snyder Anne Waldman Lew Welch Philip Whalen William Carlos Williams PHOTO GALLERY Perhaps one of the most colorful writers to emerge from the Beat period, William S. Burroughs has led an extremely interesting life. Born in St. Louis, Mo. on February 5, 1914, Burroughs grew up under fairly comfortable circumstances. He attended Harvard University and graduated in 1936. He was well known for his openly homoerotic tendencies and frequently wrote about his experiments with narcotic substances. In 1951 Burroughs, on a jaunt to Mexico, shot his second wife, Joan, in an accident where he reportedly attempted to mock a scene from the William Tell Overture. He then spent much of his life wandering through South America, experimenting with drugs and gathering research for his future writings. Perhaps he is best known for helping establish the collage technique, a writing style many perceive to be pretentious and confusing. Most of his writing centered around the underworld and drug sub-cultures and his film

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