William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs was an influential American novelist and essayist known for his experimental, transgressive works such as "Naked Lunch" and his central role in the development of postwar countercultural literature.

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instanceOf Beat Generation writer
LGBT writer
counterculture figure
essayist
human
novelist
poet
short story writer
spoken word artist
birthDate 1914-02-05
birthPlace St. Louis, Missouri, United States
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1997-08-02
deathPlace Lawrence, Kansas
surface form: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
educatedAt Harvard University
familyName William S. Burroughs self-linksurface differs
surface form: Burroughs
fieldOfWork essays
literature
spoken word performance
fullName William S. Burroughs self-linksurface differs
surface form: William Seward Burroughs II
genre autobiographical fiction
experimental fiction
science fiction
transgressive fiction
givenName William
hasInfluentialRoleIn Beat literature
postwar countercultural literature
hasSignatureWork Naked Lunch
influenced cyberpunk literature
postmodern literature
punk culture
influencedBy Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
language English
movement Beat Generation
postmodern literature
postwar counterculture
notableIdea cut-up technique
notableWork Cities of the Red Night
Junky
Naked Lunch
Nova Express
Queer
The Place of Dead Roads
The Soft Machine
The Ticket That Exploded
The Western Lands
The Wild Boys
occupation essayist
novelist
poet
short story writer
spoken word performer
writer
relative William Seward Burroughs I
residence Lawrence, Kansas
surface form: Lawrence, Kansas, United States

London, England
New York City
Paris
surface form: Paris, France

Tangier
surface form: Tangier, Morocco
sexualOrientation gay
spouse Joan Vollmer

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this entity surface form: William Burroughs