William Burroughs - in pictures
The author of Naked Lunch was born 100 years ago today. From his friendships with Beat authors such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, to his meetings with Dennis Hopper and Sting, browse images from a long and disreputable life
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William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac in New York, 1953
Photograph: Allen Ginsberg/Corbis
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Burroughs sitting at a table with typewriter, 1959
Photograph: Loomis Dean/Getty Image
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Peter Orlovsky and Jack Kerouac pose in their shorts, while Burroughs takes a nap fully clothed on a beach in Tangier, Morocco, c1957
Photograph: Allen Ginsberg/Corbis
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Burroughs in the Beat Hotel, Paris, 1959
Photograph: Loomis Dean/Getty Images
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Burroughs in Paris, c1964
Photograph: Getty Images
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Burroughs in 1965
Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images
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Burroughs' apartment in a converted YMCA building, which he called The Bunker, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, 1977
Photograph: Caterine Milinaire/Corbis
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Burroughs with Dennis Hopper, February 1977
Photograph: Caterine Milinaire/ Caterine Milinaire/Sygma/Corbis
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Allen Ginsberg and Burroughs (smoking) sit with French writer Jean Genet in the audience of the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois
Photograph: Hulton/Getty Images
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Burroughs and Joe Strummer of The Clash in The Bunker, 1980
Photograph: Victor Bockris/Corbis
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Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997), Gregory Corso (1930 - 2001), and William Burroughs (1914 - 1997) in Boulder, Colorado, 1994
Photograph: Chris Felver/Getty Images
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Burroughs in Chicago, 1981
Photograph: Paul Natkin/WireImage
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Burroughs celebrates his 70th birthday at the Limelight dance club in New York
Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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Burroughs with Sting and Andy Summers of the Police at his birthday party in the Limelight club, New York
Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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Burroughs with a knife in his New York apartment, The Bunker
Photograph: Victor Bockris/Corbis
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Burroughs on the set of The Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg
Photograph: Jean-Louis Atlan/Corbis
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Burroughs during the 1990s
Photograph: William Coupon/Corbis
