Last Words: The Final Journals of William Burroughs

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Flamingo, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 273 pages
William Burroughs died in August 1997, after a lifetime of notoriety. In his final years, he was writing only in his journals. The last nine months of his diaries are here, in Last Words, and they form a complex, rarely seen, personal portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death.

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About the author (2001)

William Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1914. Immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s – notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg – he already had an underground reputation before the appearance of his first important book, ‘Naked Lunch’. William Burroughs died in 1997.

Bibliographic information

TitleLast Words: The Final Journals of William Burroughs
1960s A S
1960s a Series
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
EditorJames Grauerholz
ContributorJames Grauerholz
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherFlamingo, 2001
ISBN0006552188, 9780006552185
Length273 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Collections / Essays
Literary Collections / Letters
Literary Criticism / American / General
  
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