Joan Vollmer in an undated photo taken by Allen Ginsberg [Courtesy of the Ginsberg Estate] If, like so many Americans today, William Burroughs possessed a toxic affinity for firearms, he – again ...

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William S. Burroughs, the maverick writer, artist, and cultural provocateur whose work defied convention, reshaping the ...

William S. Burroughs, also known as William Seward Burroughs ... and medical school in Vienna. Among his peers were Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He received major accolades such as the American ...

In 1952, William S. Burroughs wrote an autobiographical ... the U.S. and then South America — where he corresponded with Allen Ginsberg with “The Yage Letters,” published in 1963.

In the late months of 1949, aspiring American writer William S ... literary brilliance, Burroughs was also a fragile “megalomaniac” (his word, used in a letter to Ginsberg) who carried a ...