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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.
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. Burroughs was a lifelong heroin addict and after his parents died he became a dealer to finance his habit. He was a disturbed and psychotic person who once cut off part of one of his fingers to give to a man with whom he was infatuated.
<ref>"Burroughs, William S." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref> He wrote ''Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict'' (1953) and ''The Naked Lunch'' (1959).
<ref>"Burroughs, William S." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>
He died on 2 August 1997.
He died on 2 August 1997.