Barry miles william burroughs biography of michael

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) — the subject of Barry Miles's overwhelming, enthralling biography — was certainly all these things and more.

After killing his wife in a bizarre shooting accident, Burroughs moved to Tangier where he lived in a male brothel and wrote his celebrated bestseller Naked.

Based upon extensive research, this biography paints a new portrait of Burroughs, making him real to the reader and showing how he was perceived by his.

William S. Burroughs was a drug addict, a murderer, a sex fiend, a pervert, a drunk, and an all-round creep, said Michael Dirda in The Washington Post.

In Call Me Burroughs, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and.

Based upon extensive research, this biography paints a new portrait of Burroughs, making him real to the reader and showing how he was perceived by his....

Call Me Burroughs, A Life

Call Me Burroughs (US edition):

NYC: The Twelve,

Introduction to the W.S.B.

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Call Me Burroughs, a Life, was published on February 5, , the th anniversary of Bill’s birth. The authorized biography was originally commissioned by Grove Press in New York in from James Grauerholz, the man who knows more about Burroughs than anyone else on earth.

I was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, February 21, 1943, and educated at Cirencester Grammar School.

He was Bill’s friend and confidante for 23 years, he was Bill’s adopted son and now, after Bill’s death is his heir and the executor of his estate. James did a phenomenal amount of research, and wrote a number of research papers that I have drawn heavily upon, including Burroughs in Chicago – the wartime period –The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs, an almost book-length study, looking at every scrap of detail and reporting on all and every angle.

He also wrote another carefully researched study of Bill’s childhood in St. Louis and