William’s father, Edmund Burroughs was a mechanic, and his mother, Ellen Julia was a homemaker. Edmund so admired William Henry Seward, the then New York governor and famous abolitionist that he named ...

William Wallace Hopkins was born on 16 November 1850, in Boone County, Indiana, USA, to Albert Hopkins (1818-1905) and Margaret Caldwell Hopkins (1830-1907) from Kentucky. William was the first child ...

“Meeting William was a real big deal for him,” said MacLeod in Charles R. Cross’s 2001 book Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain. “It was something he never thought would happen.” ...

If the life of William S. Burroughs is the sum of his addictions, and the life of Norman Mailer the sum of his quarrels, then the life of Mark Twain could be told by listing what Chernow calls his ...

A curator and confidant of the late William S Burroughs has said the writer and artist “broke down sobbing” when recalling the death of his partner. Read More: Queer review – Daniel Craig ...

William S. Burroughs biography and filmography.Popular Movie Trailers See All LAST BREATH Trailer 22,836 views ANORA Trailer 49,803 views THE BRUTALIST Trailer 61,196 views ...

Alongside Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs was one of the principal figures associated with the Beat movement of the 1950s and 60s.

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author ...

In 1952, William S. Burroughs wrote an autobiographical novella about living in Mexico City, his crush on an ex-Army man and a trip to the Amazon to try to experience yage — a drug that ...

The dark side of William Burroughs, wife killer behind Daniel Craig’s Queer The renowned author murdered his wife before going on to become one of America’s most influential figures in literature.

Now he's back with "Queer," an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' autobiographical novel. It stars Daniel Craig as an American living in 1950s Mexico City who falls hard for a younger man.