William’s father, Edmund Burroughs was a mechanic, and his mother, Ellen Julia was a homemaker. Edmund so admired William Henry Seward, the then New York governor and famous abolitionist that he named ...

“Meeting William was a real big deal for him,” said MacLeod in Charles R. Cross’s 2001 book Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain. “It was something he never thought would happen.” ...

A curator and confidant of the late William S Burroughs has said the writer and artist “broke down sobbing” when recalling the death of his partner. Read More: Queer review – Daniel Craig ...

Alongside Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs was one of the principal figures associated with the Beat movement of the 1950s and 60s.

In 1966, Daevid Allen asked postmodern author William Burroughs for permission to use the title of his novel The Soft Machine for his new band. In 2009 the Gong mastermind (who died in 2015) told ...

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author ...

I’m beginning this article on Schubert’s birthday, Friday January 31, looking ahead to the Wednesday, February 5 birthday of William Burroughs (1914-1997), who ventured into “Let the devil play it” ...

William S. Burroughs, also known as William Seward Burroughs II, was an influential American figure associated with the Beat Generation and postmodernism. His visual art has been exhibited at ...

The dark side of William Burroughs, wife killer behind Daniel Craig’s Queer The renowned author murdered his wife before going on to become one of America’s most influential figures in literature.

The B 8500 is a dream world away from the machine that gave Burroughs its start in St. Louis in 1888. This was William Seward Burroughs’ arithmometer, an iron-and-glass adding device.

Daniel Craig plays Burroughs’ alter ego, William Lee, and Drew Starkey plays Allerton. The film captures Lee’s rootless expatriate life, hanging out in bars, smoking and drinking while ...