WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (1914-1997) was an American postmodernist author whose work influenced a broad range of popular culture and literature.  Jack Kerouac called him the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift" for his "lifelong subversion" of the moral, political, and economic systems of modern American society, while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius."

In 1943, while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and out of their mutual influence grew the foundation of the Beat Generation, which was later a defining influence on the 1960s counterculture.  His experimental novels are sexually explicit and evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world.  Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived throughout Mexico City, London, Paris and Tangier in Morocco, as well as from his travels in the South American Amazon.

Burroughs found success with his confessional first novel, JUNKIE (1953, later reissued as JUNKY), but he is best known for his third novel NAKED LUNCH (1959), a highly controversial work that was the subject of a court case after it was challenged as being in violation of the U.S. sodomy laws.  With Brion Gysin, he popularized the literary cut-up technique in works such as "The Nova Trilogy", one of his most radical experimentations with narrative form: THE SOFT MACHINE (1961), THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED (1962), and NOVA EXPRESS (1964).  In his later years, his "Red Night Trilogy" -- CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT (1981), THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS (1983) and THE WESTERN LANDS (1987) -- featured time-travel adventures and was deemed to be shaping a new literary "mythography" (J. G. Ballard).


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise indicated:

== FICTION ==

* And the Hippos Were Boiled in their Tank (Grove, 2008) [with Jack Kerouac]
* Book of Breeething, The (Blue Wind, 1975) -- PDF
* Cat Inside, The (Penguin, 1992)
* Cities of the Red Night [Red Night Trilogy 1] (Picador, 2013)
* Exterminator (Penguin, 2012) [with Brion Gysin]
* Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (New Dawn no. 37, 1996) -- PDF
* Interzone (Viking, 1989) [ed. Grauerholz] -- PDF
* Junky (Odyssey, 2010)
* Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk" (Grove, 2003) [ed. Harris]
* My Education: A Book of Dreams (Penguin, 2009)
* Naked Lunch: Restored Text (Grove, 2001) [ed. Grauerholz] -- ePUB + PDF
* Nova Express: The Restored Text [Nova Trilogy 3] (Grove, 2014) [ed. Harris]
* Place of Dead Roads, The [Red Night Trilogy 2] (Picador, 2013)
* Port of Saints (Blue Wind, 1980) -- PDF
* Queer (Penguin, 2010) [ed. Harris]
* Soft Machine: The Restored Text [Nova Trilogy 1] (Grove, 2014) [ed. Harris]
* Third Mind, The (Viking, 1978) [with Brion Gysin] -- PDF
* Ticket That Exploded [Nova Trilogy 2] (Grove, 2011)
* Tornado Alley (Cherry Valley Editions, 1989) -- ePUB + PDF
* Western Lands, The [Red Night Trilogy 3] (Penguin, 1988)
* Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Grove, 1992)
* Yage Letters, The (City Lights, 1975) [with Allen Ginsberg] -- ePUB + PDF


== NON-FICTION & LETTERS ==

* Adding Machine, The: Selected Essays (Grove, 2013)
* Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology (Expanded Media, 1985) -- PDF
* Conversations with WSB (Mississippi, 1999) [ed. Hibbard] -- PDF
* Electronic Revolution, The (UbuClassics, 2005) -- PDF
* Job, The: Interviews with WSB (Penguin, 2008) [ed. Odier]
* Last Words: The Final Journals of WSB (Grove, 2000) [ed. Grauerholz]
* Letters 1945-1959 (Penguin, 2009) [ed. Harris]
* Re/Search #4/5: Special Book Issue (1982) -- PDF
* Retreat Diaries (City Moon, 1976) -- PDF
* Rub Out the Words: Letters of WSB, 1959-1974 (Ecco, 2012) [ed. Morgan]
* With WSB: Report from the Bunker (Open Road, 2016) [Bockris]
* Word Virus: The WSB Reader (Grove, 2007) [ed. Grauerholz and Silverberg]


== BIBLIOGRAPHY ==

* Anything But Routine: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of WSB by Brian E.C. Schottlaender (UC San Diego Libraries, 2009) -- PDF

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