William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In
work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the
morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those
conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a
drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after
began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as
one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and
innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books
include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The
Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After
living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs
finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997. Will Self is
the author of three short-story collections, The Quantity Theory of
Insanity (winner of the 1992 Geoffrey Faber award), Grey Area and
Tough Tough Toys for Touch Tough Boys; a dyad of novellas, Cock and
Bull, and a third novella, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis; and four
novels, My Idea of Fun, Great Apes, How the Dead Live (shortlisted
for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2000) and The Book of Dave.
Together with the photographer David Gamble, he produced Perfidious
Man, a sideways look at contemporary masculinity. There have been
three collections of journalism, Junk Mail, Sore Sites and Feeding
Frenzy. Will Self has written for a plethora of publications over
the years and is a regular broadcaster on television and radio. His
latest work is a collection of pieces entitled Liver: A Fictional
Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes.
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