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Also Known As William Seward Burroughs • William Lee
Born February 5, 1914 • Saint Louis • Missouri
Died August 2, 1997 (aged 83) • Lawrence • Kansas
Notable Works “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks” • “Cities of the Red Night” • “Exterminator!” • “Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict” • “My Education: A Book of Dreams” • “Nova Express” • “Queer” • “The Naked Lunch” • “The Place of Dead Roads” • “The Soft Machine” • “The Ticket that Exploded” • “The Western Lands” • “The Wild Boys” • “The Yage Letters”
Movement / Style Beat movement • avant-garde

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