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Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Photographer
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Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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William Lee
William Burroughs
Ouiliam Baroouz
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William S. (William Seward) Burroughs
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