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William S Burroughs Stock Photos

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William S. Burroughs on 3/25/81 in Chicago, Il.

Paul Natkin Archive

Paris, France: Williams Burroughs , author, shown at his typewriter in Paris. Photograph, 1962.

William S. Burroughs At Typewriter

Circa 1964, American Beat poet and author William S. Burroughs , heir to the Burroughs business machine fortune, lights a cigarette outdoors in...

William S Burroughs

American writer and artist William S Burroughs holding a pistol in a garden in San Francisco, California, US, 1981.

William Burroughs With Gun

American writer and artist William S Burroughs holding a rifle in a garden in San Francisco, California, US, 1981.

Writer William Burroughs With Rifle

Beat author William S. Burroughs poses while on a visit to Bourges in France during April of 1984.

Ulf Andersen Archive - William S. Burroughs

Beat author William S. Burroughs poses while on a visit to Bourges in France during April of 1984.

Ulf Andersen Archive - William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs on 3/25/81 in Chicago, Il. In Various Locations,

Paul Natkin Archive

Beat author William S. Burroughs poses while on a visit to Bourges in France during April of 1984.

Ulf Andersen Archive - William S. Burroughs

Artist/writer William S. Burroughs with shotgun standing in front of his shotgun paintings at an art gallery.

William S. Burroughs

American writer and artist William S Burroughs with a pump-action shotgun in the garden of a property, with figures watching from the windows in the...

William Burroughs and the Wild Boys

Author William S. Burroughs poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Los Angeles, California

William Burroughs Portrait

Poets Peter Orlovsky and Jack Kerouac pose in swim trunks, converted boxer shorts, as William S. Burroughs takes a nap fully clothed on a beach in...

Peter Orlovsky, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs Relaxing on Beach

Jack Kerouac, Tangier, 1950-1959

William Burroughs & Jack Kerouac - NYC Fall 1953; "But Jack I've told you over and over, if you continue your present pattern of living with your...

William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac on Sofa

Jack Kerouac, New York City

William Burroughs with knife in his New York City apartment, which was named "The Bunker." The apartment was a converted YMCA building. The screen...

William S. Burroughs

Beat author William S. Burroughs poses while on a visit to Bourges in France during April of 1984.

Ulf Andersen Archive - William S. Burroughs

Paris, France: William Burroughs , American writer, author of "Naked Lunch." Photograph taken in a Paris bar, 1962.

William S. Burroughs at a Bar

William S. Burroughs, the stone-faced godfather of the ``Beat generation'' whose experimental novel ``Naked Lunch'' unleashed an underground world...

William S. Burroughs, the stone-faced godfather of the ``Beat generation'' whose experimental novel ``Naked Lunch'' unleashed an underground world that defied narration, died Saturday Aug. 2, 1997, in Kansas City, Mo. He was 83.

Patti Smith and William S. Burroughs

Patti Smith and William S. Burroughs

Patti Smith - Artist, Portrait, Friendship

William S. Burroughs stands alongside a sphinx in the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.

William S. Burroughs with Sphinx at Museum

Left to right: American authors Terry Southern, Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs sit with French writer Jean Genet in the audience of the...

Democratic National Convention

View of American author William S Burroughs at an unspecified event, San Francisco, California, November 1974.

View Of William S. Burroughs

Beat writer William S. Burroughs wears a fedora while in Tangier, Morocco.

William S. Burroughs with Fedora

1960-1969, Tangier

The home of American writer William S. Burroughs called "The Bunker," on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 222 Bowery.

American writer William S. Burroughs

New York City, 1970-1979, No People

American author William S. Burroughs poses for a photo in January 1993 in New York City, New York.

William S. Burroughs

Beat writer William S. Burroughs works on the typescript of Yage Letters from his apartment in the Lower East Side.

William S. Burroughs Busy at Typewriter

Carl Solomon in his Prince Street apartment several years after residence with me on sixth floor ward, New York State Psychiatric Institute,...

Editor Carl Solomon Without Pants

William S. Burroughs and Alan Ansen chat on the sidewalk outside the San Remo Cafe in Greenwich Village.

Writer William S. Burroughs and Poet Alan Ansen

Writer William S. Burroughs sits in the shadows of his Lower East Side apartment. Burroughs has recently returned to New York from Mexico and South...

William S. Burroughs in Shadows

William S. Burroughs stands next to a Sphinx in the Egyptian Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in fall 1953; text written by...

William S. Burroughs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Students, writers, and friends Hal Chase, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs enjoy each other's company in Morningside Heights,...

Kerouac, Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs as Young Men

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac holding William S. Burroughs' cat in Villa Muneria, Tangier in 1957; text written by Allen Ginsberg.

Jack Kerouac Holding Cat

Domestic Cat, Jack Kerouac

William S. Burroughs in the Arts Lab near Longacre, in Covent Garden.

William S. Burroughs

Photographer's caption: Author William S. Burroughs in front of one of the artworks he has for sale at the Earl McGrath Gallery is titled, "Don't Sit...

Photographer's caption: Author William S. Burroughs in front of one of the artworks he has for sale

American writer William S. Burroughs poses during a portrait session at Bourges Railway Station held on April 24, 1984 in Bourges, France.

William S. Burroughs Portrait Session

American writer William S. Burroughs poses during a portrait session at Bourges Railway Station held on April 24, 1984 in Bourges, France.

William S. Burroughs Portrait Session

Musician Patti Smith with Author William S. Burroughs

Musician Patti Smith with Author William S. Burroughs

Writer William S. Burroughs Resting on Beach

Writer William S. Burroughs Resting on Beach

William Burroughs reading St.-Jean Perse's Vents in Allen Ginsberg's New York City apartment in fall 1953; text written by Allen Ginsberg.

William S. Burroughs Reading a Book

Writer William S. Burroughs stops at a sidewalk cafe in the Petit Socco during a trip to Tangier.

William S. Burroughs at Sidewalk Cafe

Tangier, 1950-1959

Original caption by Allen Ginsberg: Bill and Jack locked in mortal combat with Moroccan dagger & broomstick club on the couch. 206 East 7th Street,...

William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg

American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer William S. Burroughs and actor, director, screenwriter and photographer Dennis Hopper at...

William S. Burroughs with Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper, New York City

American writer William S Burroughs sitting in a wheelchair.

William Burroughs

View of, from left, American Beat authors Allen Ginsberg , Gregory Corso , and William S. Burroughs as they attend an unspecified event, Boulder,...

Ginsberg, Corso, & Burroughs At Event

Col. X 4.75"/108x120mm Hector Casanova color caricature illustration of William S. Burroughs, famous beat generation writer.

William S. Burroughs

Photo of American Beat author William S Burroughs and musician & poet Patti Smith at the Nova Convention, a multimedia retrospective of Burroughs'...

Burroughs & Smith At The Nova Convention

Patti Smith - Artist

American authors William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso read from an event at Columbia University, New York, New York, April 17, 1975. The event was...

Burroughs & Corso Read At Columbia University

American writer Gore Vidal speaks with Beat authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg at a Grove Press book party, New York, New York, December...

Vidal, Burroughs, & Ginsberg

American Beat authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg attend a Grove Press book party, December 22, 1964.

Burroughs & Ginsberg At Grove Press Event

William Burroughs sitting up in back bedroom waiting for my company, we slept together & worked on Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts, Ace Books'd...

William S. Burroughs Meditating at Home

Writer William S. Burroughs Posing for a Photograph

Writer William S. Burroughs Posing for a Photograph

Joan Vollmer was companion to William S. Burroughs until her death by a gunshot to the head.

Portrait of Joan Vollmer

Writer William S. Burroughs , journalist Lucien Carr , and poet Allen Ginsberg together in New York City.

William S. Burroughs, Lucien Carr, and Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg, Photography, Archival

William S. Burroughs Sitting near Chair

William S. Burroughs Sitting near Chair

William S. Burroughs sitting in Allen Ginsberg's apartent in New York City in fall 1953; text written by Allen Ginsberg.

William S. Burroughs

Poet John Giorno and Jim Grauerholz watch as William S. Burroughs draws a blackjack from his hip.

William S. Burroughs Drawing a Blackjack

Vents, novel, 1946.

William S. Burroughs Reading Book

William S. Burroughs Feeding Cats in Kitchen

William S. Burroughs Feeding Cats in Kitchen

William Burroughs with knife in his New York City apartment, which was named "The Bunker." The apartment was a converted YMCA building.

William S. Burroughs

American Writer William S. Burroughs

American Writer William S. Burroughs