About William S Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life. A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature. In 1984, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Series
Cities of the Night
1. Cities of the Red Night: A Boy's Book (1981)
2. The Place of Dead Roads (1983)
3. The Western Lands (1987)
1. Cities of the Red Night: A Boy's Book (1981)
2. The Place of Dead Roads (1983)
3. The Western Lands (1987)
Novels
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (1953) (writing as William Lee)
aka Junky
Naked Lunch (1959)
Minutes To Go (1960) (with Sinclair Beilles, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin)
Exterminator! (1960) (with Brion Gysin)
The Soft Machine (1961)
The Ticket That Exploded (1962)
Dead Fingers Talk (1963)
Nova Express (1964)
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script (1970)
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (1971)
Port of Saints (1973)
The Book of Breathing (1980)
aka Ah Pook is Here
Queer (1985)
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (2008) (with Jack Kerouac)
aka Junky
Naked Lunch (1959)
Minutes To Go (1960) (with Sinclair Beilles, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin)
Exterminator! (1960) (with Brion Gysin)
The Soft Machine (1961)
The Ticket That Exploded (1962)
Dead Fingers Talk (1963)
Nova Express (1964)
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script (1970)
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (1971)
Port of Saints (1973)
The Book of Breathing (1980)
aka Ah Pook is Here
Queer (1985)
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (2008) (with Jack Kerouac)
Collections
Ali's Smile / Naked Scientology (1978)
The Third Mind (1978) (with Brion Gysin)
A William Burroughs Reader (1982)
The Burroughs File (1984)
Word Virus: The Selected Writings of William S. Burroughs (1984)
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays (1985)
Interzone (1989)
The Third Mind (1978) (with Brion Gysin)
A William Burroughs Reader (1982)
The Burroughs File (1984)
Word Virus: The Selected Writings of William S. Burroughs (1984)
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays (1985)
Interzone (1989)
Novellas
Short Stories
Non fiction
The Yage Letters (1963) (with Allen Ginsberg)
Snack: Two Tape Transcripts (1975) (with Eric Mottram)
Burroughs Live (1977)
The Job: Interviews With William S. Burroughs (1982)
Burroughs: Letters (1988)
My Education: A Book of Dreams (1989)
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Boroughs, November 1996-July 1997 (1990)
With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker (1991)
Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs (1993)
The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945 to 1959 (1993)
Conversations with William Burroughs (1995)
A Burroughs Compendium: Calling the Toads (1998)
Call Me Burroughs (1998)
Evil River (2006)
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2007)
Snack: Two Tape Transcripts (1975) (with Eric Mottram)
Burroughs Live (1977)
The Job: Interviews With William S. Burroughs (1982)
Burroughs: Letters (1988)
My Education: A Book of Dreams (1989)
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Boroughs, November 1996-July 1997 (1990)
With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker (1991)
Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs (1993)
The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945 to 1959 (1993)
Conversations with William Burroughs (1995)
A Burroughs Compendium: Calling the Toads (1998)
Call Me Burroughs (1998)
Evil River (2006)
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2007)
Anthologies containing stories by William S Burroughs
Confederacy of the Dead (1993)
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (1993)
Omni Visions One (1993)
Twists of the Tale (1996)
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (1993)
Omni Visions One (1993)
Twists of the Tale (1996)
Short stories
| The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar (1987) | |||
| Ruski (1988) | |||
| Death Fiend Guerillas (1993) | Bram Stoker (nominee) |
Awards
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William S Burroughs recommends
Young Adam (1957) Alexander Trocchi "Alex Trocchi has the courage so essential to a writer. He writes about spirit, flesh, and death and the vision that comes through the flesh . . . he has been there and brought it back." | Raga Six (1972) (Dr. Owen Orient, book 2) Frank Lauria "Hypnotically readable ... Frank Lauria has written the most believable vampire and werewolf stories I have ever read." | Great Expectations (1982) Kathy Acker "Acker is a postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill." | |
Blue Limbo (1991) (Dr. Owen Orient, book 7) Frank Lauria "Hypnotically readable..." | The Slave and the Free (1999) (Holdfast) Suzy McKee Charnas "Only one science fiction book in hundreds manages to convince the reader that it ever could have happened anywhere, and at least that few are worth reading at all. . . . [Charnas has] created a future that is at once believable and fascinating." |
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