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William Seward Burroughs

Plan
Biography
Famous work
Other works
Date of death and reason
Internet resources

Biography

Early years and youth
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5th, 1914 in St. Louis, state Missouri, to a family of well-known industrialists. His grandfather was the founder of the company Burroughs, which exists to this day and is engaged in the production of computers. From 1932 to 1936, Burroughs studied at the Harvard University in the Faculty* (Fakul'tet) of English Literature.(Literatura)

Burroughs grew up in the elite area of St. Louis, studied at private secondary schools in Missouri and New Mexico. From 1920 to 1929, he replaced four schools, eventually becoming a graduate of The Taylor School. Already in his early childhood, William discovered an interest in writing: "I wanted to be a writer, because writers are rich and famous". His first literary (ˈlitəˌrerē) opus, "Autobiography of the wolf," Burroughs created at school age: "<...> I wrote it, after reading" The Biography of Grizzlies "

After graduation, he travels to Europe. In 1937, Burroughs is in Vienna, where he is going to study medicine. In Austria, he fictitiously marries a Jewish woman Ilse Klapper, saving her from the Nazis. Returning to America, Burroughs for some time studying anthropology in the graduate school of Harvard. In 1941, he was drafted into the army, but several months later they were fired from the service.

September 6th, 1951 in Mexico City there is an event that determined the fate of Burroughs as a writer. Playing in "William Tell" drunk Burroughs fires a pistol and accidentally mortally wounded his wife. Later in the preface to the novel “Queer" he writes: "I have to admit with horror that if it were not for Joan's death, I would never become a writer, I have to realize to what extent this event caused my writing and formed it.

Famous works
His most famous works is "Junkie", "Naked Lunch", “Queer" written in 1953, 1959 years

The most famous novel in the biography of William Seward Burroughs is "Naked Lunch" (Naked Lunch, 1959) - this is a surreal image of the existence of a dependent person. The unnatural and harsh fantasies of William Burroughs contributed to the revision of the style novel and the permissible theme.
The author's later works are Cities of the Red Night (1981), The Place of the Dead Roads (1984), Interzone (1989), and the autobiographical work My Education. Book of Dreams »(My Education: A Book of Dreams, 1995). The writer died on August 2, 1997 from myocardial infarction.

Internet resources
https://www.livelib.ru/author/7200-uilyam-berrouz
https://24smi.org/celebrity/5195-uiliam-berrouz.html
http://obrazovaka.ru/alpha/b/berrouz-uilyam-syuard-burroughs-william-seward
http://pomnipro.ru/memorypage16103/biography
http://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/kultura_i_obrazovanie/literatura/BERROUZ_UILYAM_SYUARD.html
https://esquire.ru/rules/4701-william-burroughs/