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William Seward Burroughs

Male : Writer. Homosexual. Drug addict 1944
Nationality : American Place of Birth : St Louis, Missouri

Date of Birth : 1914 Date of Death : 1997 Age : 83

Pseudonyms : William Lee

Education : Harvard
1953-1960
Junkie : Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict
(1953 Ace Books US) (1957 Digit UK)
(1977 Penguin NY - 1st unexpurgated Ed) - as William Lee
The Naked Lunch
(1959 Olympia Press, Paris) (1959 Grove Press - 3500) (1964 Calder)
[Filmed in 1991]
Minutes to Go
(1960 Two Cities Editions, Paris)
The Exterminator
(1960 Auerhahn Press, SF pb) - with Brion Gysin

1961-1965
The Soft Machine
(1961 OP, Paris) (1966 Grove Press) (1968 Calder & Boyars)
The Ticket That Exploded
(1962 Olympia Press) (1967 GP) (1968 C & B)
The Yage Letters
(1963 City Lights) - with Allen Ginsberg
Dead Fingers Talk
(1963 John Calder)
Nova Express
(1964 Grove Press) (1966 Cape)

1966-1970
So Who Owns Death TV ?
(1967 Beach Books, SF) - with others
Dead Star
(1969 Nova Broadcast Press, SF)
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
(1970 Cape Goliard Press, London) - 100 signed (1975 Viking NY)

1971-1975
The Wild Boys : A Book of the Dead
(1971 GP) (1972 C & B)
Electronic Revolution
(1971 Blackmoor Head Press)
Port of Saints
(1973 Covent Garden Press, London) (1983 Calder)
The Cat Inside
(1973 Viking NY)
Exterminator !
(1973 Viking NY) (1974 Calder & Boyars)
The Job : Interviews with Williams Burroughs by Daniel Odier
(1974 Grove Press)
The Book of Breething
(1975 Blue Wind)
The Last Words of Dutch Schulz
(1975)

1976-1980
Cobble Stone Gardens
(1976 Cherry Valley NY)
Junky
(1977 Penguin) - intro by Ginsberg
Short Novels
(1978 Calder)
Letters to Allen Ginsberg
(1978 Geneva)
The Third Mind
(1978 Viking/Seaver, NY) (1979 Calder £5.95) - with Brion Gysin
Ah Pook is Here & Other Texts
(1979 Calder)
Blade Runner ! : A Movie
(1979 Blue Wind Press, US)
Doctor Benway
(1979 Bradford Morrow)
Port of Saints
(1980 Blue Wind) (1983 Calder)

1981-1990
Cities of the Red Night : A Boy's Book
(1981 Calder) (1981 Holt, R & W - 500 signed & numbered)
Early Routines
(1981 Cadmus, US) - ss
The Last Words of Hassan-I-Sabbath in AM Here Books Catalogue Five 1981-2
(1981)
The Streets of Chance
(1981 Red Ozier Press, US)
Sinki's Sauna
(1982 Pequod Press, NY) - 500 signed
Dear Allen : Letters to Allen Ginsberg
(1982 Full Court Press, NY)
The Place of Dead Roads
(1983 Holt Rinehart) (1984 Calder)
Ruski
(1984 Hand-Job Press, NY - 500)
The Adding Machine : Collected Essays
(1985 NY) (1985 Calder)
Queer
(1985 Viking US) (1986 Picador)
The Western Lands
(1987 Viking) (1988 Picador)
Apocalypse
(1988 Mulder Fine Arts, NY) - Keith Haring
Interzone
(1989 Viking NY) (1989 Pan / Picador)
Tornado Alley
(1989 Cherry Valley Editions, Ann Arbor) - 500, incl 100 signed. S Clay Wilson

AFTER 1991
The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945 to 1959
(1993 Viking Penguin, NY) (1993 Picador £17.50)
My Education : A Book of Dreams
(1995 Viking Penguin, NY) (1995 Picador)
Ghost of Chance
(1995 High Risk Books) - 125 signed
Last Words : the Final Journals of William Burroughs
(2000 Grove Books, NY) (2000 Flamingo £14.99)

READING
J Maynard & B Miles : A Bibliography of William S Burroughs 1953-1973
(1978 Virginia UP) - 2000
Ted Morgan : Literary Outlaw - The Life & Times of William Burroughs
(1987 Holt, NY)
Barry Miles : William Burroughs - El Hombre Invisible
(1992 Virgin Books £14.99)

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