William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced both underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs's work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators. Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique. His writing also engaged frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, constant preoccupations in both his fiction and real life.
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🎬 Movies
Queer
writer
2025
Uncle Howard
actor
2016
Corso: The Last Beat
actor
2009
Chelsea on the Rocks
actor
2008
Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road
actor
2007
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
actor
1994
Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
actor
1991
Drugstore Cowboy
writer
1990
Drugstore Cowboy
actor
1990
Bloodhounds of Broadway
actor
1989
Twister
actor
1989
Home of the Brave
actor
1986
Ornette: Made in America
actor
1984
Chappaqua
actor
1966
📖 Books
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
author
2008
My education
author
1995
Queer
author
1985
The Job
author
1985
The place of dead roads
author
1983
Cities of the Red Night
author
1981
Blade runner
author
1979
The job
author
1974
The wild boys
author
1971
Speed
author
1970
Nova Express (Evergreen Black Cat Book, BC-102)
author
1964
The Yage Letters
author
1963
The ticket that exploded
author
1962
The Soft Machine
author
1961
Naked Lunch
author
1959
Junky
author
1953