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  <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. 

Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life. 

A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature. In 1984, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.&quot;
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  <title><![CDATA[Naked Lunch: The Restored Text]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.47</average_rating>
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  <published>1959</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Oliver Harris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.85</average_rating>
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  <published>1953</published>  
  
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        <book id="23942">
  <title><![CDATA[Queer (Picador Books)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.65</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1207</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Soft Machine]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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  <published>1961</published>  
  
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        <book id="23944">
  <title><![CDATA[Cities of the Red Night: A Novel]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>680</ratings_count>
  <published>1981</published>  
  
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        <book id="23930">
  <title><![CDATA[The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.57</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>557</ratings_count>
  <published>1971</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Nova Express]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.56</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>518</ratings_count>
  <published>1964</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Exterminator!]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.78</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>471</ratings_count>
  <published>1973</published>  
  
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        <book id="63885">
  <title><![CDATA[The Yage Letters]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.71</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>458</ratings_count>
  <published>1963</published>  
  
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        <book id="257506">
  <title><![CDATA[The Western Lands]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William S. Burroughs]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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  <published>1987</published>  
  
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