William S Burroughs Biography
(John Bowie)
William S Burroughs II lived between February 5, 1914 and August 2, 1997 and was a massive force in American writing. Most of Burroughs'' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his life wrestling the demons of opiate addiction. He was a figurehead of the Beat Generation, and generally seen as a blues sky or off the wall author who influenced popular culture hugely as well as literature. The generally considered turning point in his life, when he decided to write to give a vehicle to his demons of brought about through wrestling drugs and sexual indifference, was when he shot his wife Joan Vollmer in a game of William Tell in a party at a bar in Mexico where he was hiding out with his family away from charges in America. He subsequently ended up in Tangiers, Morocco and ended up pen his masterpiece, Naked lunch.
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