He spent years experimenting with drugs as well as with sex, which he engaged in with men, women and children. His recovery was all the more noteworthy since he had spent so many of his younger days engulfed in narcotics addiction, an imperative so demanding that in 1954, while living in London, he sold his typewriter to buy heroin,Īlthough he kept working in longhand. And though he continued to suffer from a leaky heart valve, from all reports he regained robust health quickly for a man of his Burroughs had undergone triple bypass surgery in 1991. But since 1981 he maintained a house in Lawrence, where he lived simply with three cats and indulged his interests in painting and photographyĪnd in collecting and discharging firearms. Burroughs had lived in such places as New York, London, Paris, Mexico City and Tangier. The cause of his death was a heart attack that he suffered on Friday, his publicist, Ira Silverberg, said. Burroughs, a renegade writer of the Beat Generation who stunned readers and inspired adoring cultists with his 1959īook ''Naked Lunch,'' died on Saturday evening at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kan. Burroughs, the Beat Writer Who Distilled His Raw Nightmare Life, Dies at 83 By RICHARD SEVERO
Burroughs, the Beat Writer Who Distilled His Raw Nightmare Life, Dies at 83
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