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==Life==
==Life==
Burroughs was born February 5, 1914.<ref>"Burroughs, William S." ''Biography.com''. http://www.biography.com/people/william-s-burroughs-9232376</ref>
Burroughs was born February 5, 1914.<ref>"Burroughs, William S." ''Biography.com''. http://www.biography.com/people/william-s-burroughs-9232376</ref>
He came from a rich family who sent him to private school where he started homosexual activity at the age of 13. He studied at [[Harvard University]]<ref>"William S. Burroughs." ''Famous Authors'' http://www.famousauthors.org/william-s-burroughs</ref> and his parents were wealthy enough to pay him an allowance so he did not have to work. He spent the money on heroin, to which he soon became addicted, and on travelling to Berlin and Vienna, where he picked up boys in Turkish baths. A similar motive led him to travel through Mexico, and Colombia, where he found it easy to purchase the services of young rent-boys with his powerful dollar. “The Mexican boys cost Burroughs three pesos apiece.” <ref>Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays, edited by Oliver C. G. Harris, Ian MacFadyen, SIU Press, 2009 p.94.</ref>
He came from a rich family who sent him to private school where he started homosexual activity at the age of 13. He studied at [[Harvard University]]<ref>"William S. Burroughs." ''Famous Authors'' http://www.famousauthors.org/william-s-burroughs</ref> and his parents were wealthy enough to pay him an allowance so he did not have to work. He spent the money on heroin, to which he soon became addicted, and on travelling to Berlin and Vienna, where he picked up boys in Turkish baths. A similar motive led him to travel through Mexico, and Colombia.
Joan Vollmer, a former asylum inmate, shacked up with Burroughs, and managed to have a child by him before he drunkenly shot her dead one day in Mexico. His rich family used bribery to get him out of gaol.
Joan Vollmer, a former asylum inmate, shacked up with Burroughs, and managed to have a child by him before he drunkenly shot her dead one day in Mexico. His rich family used bribery to get him out of gaol.