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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 20 | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/01/william-burroughs-junky-will-self | en | William Burroughs - the original Junkie | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 0 | 4 | https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/12/20/173419/- | en | Merry Fetus! The latest dispatch from the War on Christmas | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 3 | 56 | https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2020/12/james-grauerholz-burroughs-and-the-dharma.html | en | ‘Burroughs and the Dharma’ | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 3 | 17 | https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/william-s-burroughs-dead-at-83-97951/ | en | William S. Burroughs Dead At 83 | [
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* "The Soft Machine" (1961) (ISBN 0-8021-3329-0)
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 50 | https://www.npr.org/2014/02/05/271558637/possessed-by-genius-a-centennial-tribute-to-william-s-burroughs | en | 'Possessed By Genius': A Centennial Tribute To William S. Burroughs | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 46 | https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/precarious-immortality-william-s-burroughs-on-film-5473/ | en | Precarious Immortality: William S. Burroughs on Film | [
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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter and spoken word performer.
Born: 5th February 1914, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Died: 2nd August 1997, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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Yet, Burroughs is infamous for murdering his 28-year-old wife, Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs, brilliant in her own right and a muse to the Beats.
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Father: Mortimer P. Burroughs (b. 16-Jun-1885, d. Jan-1965)
Mother: Laura Hammond Lee (b. 5-Aug-1888, d. 20-Oct-1970)
Brother: Mortimer P. Burroughs (b. 16-Feb-1911, d. 27-Feb-1983)
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"The passing of William Burroughs leaves us with few great American writers," said Burroughs' long-time publicist Ira Silverberg. "His presence in the American literary landscape was unparalleled.... | ||||||
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William Seward Burroughs was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1914. His grandfather founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, and his father owned a store called Cobblestone Gardens. Money was never an issue for Burroughs, who attended private school and was gi... | |||||
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William S. Burroughs Quotes
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Born On
1914-02-05
Died On
1997-08-02
Birth Place
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Death Place
Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Birth Sign
aquarius
Father
Mortimer Perry Burroughs
Mother
Laura Hammon Lee
Spouse
Ilse von Klapper,... | |||||
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Biography
William Burroughs II is Notable.
William was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He was the younger of two sons born to Mortimer Perry Burroughs and Laura Hammon Lee. He frequent... | |||||
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John Bramlett and Mary Peak
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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 (inclu... | |||||||
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1. Disembodied Voice Reciting the Sunflower in a Room in Springfield
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 88 | https://www.openculture.com/2018/07/joan-vollmer-wife-william-burroughs-allegedly-shot-playing-william-tell.html | en | Who Was Joan Vollmer, the Wife William Burroughs Allegedly Shot While Playing William Tell? | [
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Unforgettable Bill
Here’s his friend, John Giorno, in Antonello Faretta‘s 2007 film, declaiming his poem/remembrance, “The Death of William Burroughs”
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 25 | https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-american-author-who-got-his-start-after-killing-his-wife-74279c9853df | en | The American Author Who Got His Start After Killing His Wife | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 33 | https://lithub.com/on-the-disappearing-of-joan-vollmer-burroughs/ | en | On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 0 | 92 | https://vitalrec.com/obitindexes/SeymourTribune.html | en | Obituaries for The Seymour Tribune in Jackson County,, IN | [] | [] | [] | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 3 | 28 | https://gulfnews.com/today-history/august-2-1997-beat-author-william-burroughs-dies-at-83-1.2067410 | en | August 2, 1997: Beat author William Burroughs dies at 83 | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 3 | 53 | https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-american-author-who-got-his-start-after-killing-his-wife-74279c9853df | en | The American Author Who Got His Start After Killing His Wife | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 48 | https://time.com/3878907/william-s-burroughs-naked-lunch-author-100th-birthday/ | en | William S. Burroughs at 100: Rebel, Junkie, Exile, Genius | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 3 | 12 | https://thebaffler.com/salvos/william-burroughs-my-part-in-his-downfall | en | William Burroughs: My Part in His Downfall | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 3 | 45 | https://myeducationofagardener.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/good-egg-william-s-burroughs/ | en | Good Egg: William S. Burroughs | [
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“The only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.” – Norman Mailer, 1962
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 3 | https://www.life.com/people/william-s-burroughs-naked-lunch-author-100th-birthday/ | en | William S. Burroughs: 100th Birthday of Famed 'Naked Lunch' Writer | [
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs_Jr. | en | William S. Burroughs Jr. | [
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Influence. Died August 2, 1997.
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] | 2014-02-03T00:00:00 | Peter Schjeldahl on the unorthodox life and work of the Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs. | en | https://www.newyorker.com/verso/static/the-new-yorker/assets/favicon.ico | The New Yorker | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/03/the-outlaw | “I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves.” So starts “Naked Lunch,” the touchstone novel by William S. Burroughs. That hardboiled riff, spoken by a junkie on the run, introduces a mélange of “episodes, misfortunes, and adventures,” which, the author said, have “no real plot, no beginning,... | ||||
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correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 53 | https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/william-s-burroughs-dead-at-83-97951/ | en | William S. Burroughs Dead At 83 | [
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way to New York Ci... | |||||
correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 1 | 5 | https://www.life.com/people/william-s-burroughs-naked-lunch-author-100th-birthday/ | en | William S. Burroughs: 100th Birthday of Famed 'Naked Lunch' Writer | [
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The American writer, painter and spoken-word pioneer William S. Burroughs on Feb. 5, 1914, in St. Louis. He died — after an improbably long life, considering the self-inflicted abuse he endured through the years — at 83 in Lawrence, Kansas. It’s somehow perversely appropriate that an iconoclas... | |||||
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] | null | [] | 2023-12-11T23:03:37+00:00 | William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost cer... | en | University of Minnesota Press | https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816680634/the-stray-bullet/ | William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence. Still uncertain about being a writer, he had left behind a series of failed business ventures—including a scheme... | |||||
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I’ve been reading Jack Kerouac’s Vanity of Duluoz, towards the end of which ... | ||||
correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 2 | 69 | https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/william-s-burroughs-a-century-ago-st-louis-gave-birth-to-the-wildest-beat-writer-of-them-all-2505366 | en | William S. Burroughs: A century ago St. Louis gave birth to the wildest Beat writer of them all | [
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] | null | [] | 2024-07-08T15:27:32+00:00 | Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is an iconic figure of the Beat generation. In this revealing study Phil Baker traces this cult writer's life – from the New York underworld of the 1940s to Mexico and the South American jungle, Tangier and the writing of Naked Lunch, Paris an... | en | Reaktion Books | https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/william-s-burroughs | William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is an iconic figure of the Beat generation. In this revealing study Phil Baker investigates this cult writer's life and work, and his self-portrayal as an explorer of inner space, reporting back from the frontiers of experience.
Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Bu... | |||||
correct_death_00083 | FactBench | 3 | 64 | https://www.ourtownny.com/news/william-s-burroughs-goes-soft-EWNP1120000307303079973 | en | William S. Burroughs Goes Soft | [] | [] | [] | [
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] | null | [] | null | Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs Edited by James Grauerholz (Grove Press, 273 pages, $25) I always liked the idea of William Bur... | en | www.ourtownny.com | https://www.ourtownny.com/news/william-s-burroughs-goes-soft-EWNP1120000307303079973 | Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs Edited by James Grauerholz (Grove Press, 273 pages, $25) I always liked the idea of William Burroughs much more than I liked actually reading him. Nevertheless, I have a reasonably complete library of his books, and most all the John Giorno recordings he made. I st... | |||||
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