![]() ![]() Although largely unpublished at the time, Burroughs was immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s – notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg – and already had an underground reputation before the appearance of his first important book, The Naked Lunch ( 1959 vt Naked Lunch 1962 vt Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 2001). He began writing in the late 1930s, but had no success until the early 1950s when he wrote two confessional books: Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict ( 1953 as by William Lee rev as by Burroughs 1977) and Queer: A Novel (written 1950s 1985), which were respectively about Drug-addiction and homosexuality, themes that continued to dominate Burroughs's work. He lived in Mexico, North Africa and the UK, and for many years was a heroin addict. (1914-1997) US author born into a successful business family, and a Harvard graduate in English literature in 1936, but a deeply transgressive and famous drop-out thereafter. ![]()
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