Full name: Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

Author: Ted Morgan Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780380708826 9780393342604 0380708825 0393342603

Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, nihilist, homosexual crusader, and brilliant writer, William S. Burroughs was the patron saint and Prince of Darkness of the Beats of the 1950s. His ground-breaking avant-garde masterpiece NAKED LUNCH shocked the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and sexual perversion--and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tim Morgan's biography of Burroughs captures one of the most lionized artist/criminals of our times--a violent, reckless genius whose history is as bizarre as his fiction. A rebel--hero, Burroughs symbolized the anti--authoritarian cause for three generations of the young and disillusioned--exploring the murkiest depths of human terror and degradation in his art--and in his life. Literary Outlaw is a wild ride through the life of a man who became an icon for the counterculture and whose perverse and decadent life mirrors his remarkable art. Similar books: Kerouac by Ann Charters Cheever by Blake Bailey Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley Tove Jansson by Tuula Karjalainen Albert Camus by Herbert R. Lottman Truman Capote by George Plimpton Saint-Exupery by Stacy Schiff Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett Anais by Noel Riley Fitch Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster May Sarton by Margot Peters In Search of J.D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton Flannery by Brad Gooch A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Simenon by Pierre Assouline The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho