William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American novelist, essayist, and cultural icon, best known as a central figure of the Beat Generation alongside Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Born into a wealthy St. Louis family, he led a turbulent life marked by drug addiction, travel, and personal tragedy, all of which deeply informed his writing. His breakthrough novel, *Naked Lunch* (1959), revolutionized modern literat...
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