William Burroughs (1914–1997) was an American writer and visual artist. Primary figure of the Beat Generation who influenced popular culture and literature. Wrote eighteen novels, novellas, short stories, essays, books of his interviews, and correspondences.
He liked guns and shot images of himself and Shakespeare and spray paint cans with a shotgun creating a whole series called “Shotgun Art” and in a bizarre accident, he shot his wife playing William Tell.
During World War II in the Navy, he developed a taste for morphine and moved to heroin, which he used for the rest of his life.
