# William Burroughs

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- Authors: [Barry Miles](https://www.bookquiver.com/barry-miles)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-07-01
- Genres: Biography: writers, Literature: history and criticism

## Description

Iconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher and elder statesman to the Beats: William Burroughs remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the twentieth century. After killing his wife in a bizarre shooting accident, Burroughs moved to Tangier where he lived in a male brothel and wrote his celebrated bestseller Naked Lunch - in Newsweek's words 'A masterpiece. A cry from Hell' and spent much of the rest of his life in self-imposed exile from the United States. Following Burroughs' death in August 1997, Barry Miles updated his riveting, highly readable and unconventional biography of this legendary provocateur and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment.

## Editions

### William Burroughs

- Publisher: virgin_books
- ISBN: 978-07-5350-707-0
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2010-07-01
- Language: en_GB