Call Me Burroughs: A Life

By Barry Miles

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

Call Me Burroughs: A Life is Barry Miles's 2014 biography of William S. Burroughs, published for the centenary of the writer's birth. Drawing on archival research and interviews, it follows Burroughs from his St. Louis childhood through addiction, the killing of his wife Joan Vollmer, Tangier, Paris and the writing of Naked Lunch, to his later years in Kansas.

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• Anthony Bourdain: “Excellent, “Call Me Burroughs” easily the best bio of WSB. Great detail, atmospherics. Unsparing of beats’ moochery and narcissism .”