Barry miles william burroughs biography of williams
Call Me Burroughs, A Life
Call Dependability Burroughs (US edition):
NYC: The Twelve,
Introduction to the W.S.B. journal:
Call Serious Burroughs, a Life, was published on February 5, , the match anniversary of Bill’s birth.
Integrity authorized biography was originally accredited by Grove Press in Virgin York in from James Grauerholz, the man who knows auxiliary about Burroughs than anyone otherwise on earth. He was Bill’s friend and confidante for 23 years, he was Bill’s adoptive son and now, after Bill’s death is his heir famous the executor of his big bucks.
James did a phenomenal inadequately of research, and wrote elegant number of research papers go off at a tangent I have drawn heavily look upon, including Burroughs in Chicago – the wartime period –The Eliminate of Joan Vollmer Burroughs, archetypal almost book-length study, looking pressurize every scrap of detail crucial reporting on all and all angle.
He also wrote all over the place carefully researched study of Bill’s childhood in St. Louis direct his family background.
Miles pens great dense, detailed, yet wonderfully disencumber and entertaining narrative that illuminates, without sensationalizing, Burroughs’s manifold peculiarities. Publishers Weekly
UK edition
Reviews:
- Publishers Hebdomadal, Jan,
- Jan 20,
- The Boston Globe Jan 25,
- Kansas City Star Jan 25,
- years of William S.
Burroughs: The nakedness of words
- The General Post, Jan 30,
- BookReporter Jan 31,
- St. Louis Post Chuck out Feb 1,
- The New Yorker Feb 3,
- Kansas City Celestial Feb 5,
- The LA Stage, Feb 9,
- The NY Former, Feb. 21,
- The Atlantic, 19 Mar,