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Beat Generation novelist and icon William S. Burroughs '36 died Saturday in Lawrence, Kansas of a heart attack. He was 83.
"The passing of William Burroughs leaves us with few great American writers," said Burroughs' long-time publicist Ira Silverberg. "His presence in the American literary landscape was unparalleled."
The 1959 publication of Burroughs' experimental novel Naked Lunch challenged conventional literary forms in depicting an underground world fighting a self-destructing technological society.
The last of the big Beat Generation writers, William Seward Burroughs, died Saturday at the age of 83. TIME's photo essay brings you the last word (and pictures) of literature's anti-hero.
If U2 has it right, life as we know it will end in the greatest traffic snarl in history. The Irish rockers almost caused it last week, when they made a video for the Armageddon-theme song Last Night on Earth from their new CD Pop. Motorists in Kansas City...