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William Seward Burroughs was an American writer, poet, spoken-word performer, and essayist. He was also known by his pseudonym William Lee. His most-famous works include Naked Lunch, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (with Jack Kerouac), Junkie, Queer, The Wild Boys, The Burroughs File, The Adding Machine, Exterminator, My Education: A Book of Dreams, Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads, and The Western Lands. He was a traveler and lived in several places such as Mexico City, London, Paris, Berlin, the South American Amazon and Tangier in Morocco.

Burroughs was born in 1914 in St. Louis in Missouri into the illustrious Burroughs family. They were of English ancestry. His grandfather William Seward Burroughs I had founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company which changed to Burroughs Corporation. He grew up in St. Louis\'s Central West End. He attended John Burroughs School, Taylor School, and Harvard University.

Burroughs was a celebrated writer. He was a recipient of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 1997.