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William S Burroughs

(1914 - 1997)
(Father of William S Burroughs Jr)
aka
William Lee

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.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

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)

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)

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)

Novellas

White Subway (1973)
Blade Runner: A Movie (1979)
Ghost of Chance (1991)
The Cat Inside (1992)

Short Stories

The Dead Star (1969)
Ali's Smile (1971)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1991)

Non fiction

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)

Short stories

	The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar (1987)
	Ruski (1988)
	Death Fiend Guerillas (1993)		Bram Stoker (nominee)

Awards

	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1966) : Nova Express
	Bram Stoker Best Short story nominee (1994) : Death Fiend Guerillas

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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