We offered this copy of the first edition in our Catalog 105.
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First Book(1953)
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born: 2/5/1914 died: 9/2/1997 born as: William Seward Burroughs
American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world. His sexual expliciteness (he was an avowed and outspoken homosexual) and the frankness with which he dealt with his own experiences as a drug addict won him a following among writers of the Beat Movement. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature