![]() ![]() In 1951, in Mexico City, he shot and killed his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer, in what was reportedly a drunken, catastrophic game of William Tell gone wrong. In New York, he met and influenced Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and the biggest voices of the Beat generation. Navy in the middle of World War II-he set a far different course for himself. But in the 1940s-having been rejected by the U.S. It’s somehow perversely appropriate that an iconoclast of Burroughs’ power and scope, who so brutally skewered middle-class hypocrisy in so many of his works, lived a life that began and ended in the middle of middle America.īorn into a wealthy Missouri family, Burroughs attended Harvard (as well as medical school in Vienna) and was, seemingly, on track for a relatively unadventurous life and career. ![]() He died - after an improbably long life, considering the self-inflicted abuse he endured through the years - at 83 in Lawrence, Kansas. The American writer, painter and spoken-word pioneer William S. ![]()
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