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Full Name: William Seward Burroughs
Biography:
(1914-1997) Novelist, writer. William S. Burroughs lived at the Hotel Chelsea, West 23rd Street, and on West 115th Street in New York City. He was associated with the Beat movement.
Author's Timeline:
1914 (Unknown) County
William S. Burroughs was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1914. 
1997 (Unknown) County
William Burroughs died in Lawrence, Kansas in 1997.  
1995 (Unknown) County
My Education: A Book of Dreams
(Pub: ISBN: 0-14-009454-7)
Semiautobiographical. 
1953 (Unknown) County
Junkie
(Pub: ISBN: 0-14-200316-6)
Autobiographical novel. 
1959 (Unknown) County
Naked Lunch
(Pub: ISBN: 0-8021-3295-2)
Novel. 
1984 New York County
William Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1984. 
1961 (Unknown) County
The Soft Machine
(Pub: ISBN: 0-8021-3329-0)
Novel. 
1962 (Unknown) County
The Ticket That Exploded
(Pub: ISBN: 0-8021-5150-7)
Novel. 
1964 (Unknown) County
Nova Express
(Pub: ISBN: 0-8021-3330-4)
Novel. 
1971 (Unknown) County
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
(Pub: ISBN: 0-8021-3331-2)
Novel. 
1981 (Unknown) County
Cities of the Red Night: A Boys' Book
(Pub: ISBN: 0-03-053976-5)
Novel. 
1984 (Unknown) County
The Place of Dead Roads
(Pub: ISBN: 0-312-27865-9)
Novel. 
1985 (Unknown) County
Queer
(Pub: ISBN: 0-14-008389-8)
Autobiographical novel. 
1963 (Unknown) County
The Yage Letters
Nonfiction, with Allen Ginsberg. 
1987 (Unknown) County
The Western Lands
(Pub: ISBN: 0-14-009456-3)
Novel. 
1989 (Unknown) County
Interzone
(Pub: ISBN: 0-14-009451-2)
Short fiction. 
1997 (Unknown) County
William S. Burroughs was interred in the Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri.  
? New York County
Burroughs lived in Manhattan, New York, at the Hotel Chelsea, West 23rd Street, and on West 115th Street.  
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