William S. Burroughs - A Life

William S. Burroughs - A Life follows Burroughs from his Midwestern origins in St Louis; to his foray into the pre-war Harvard gay scene; communal living that gave birth to the Beat movement at Columbia University; expatriate culture in Mexico City, Peru and Tangier; The Beat Hotel in Paris; and the punk scene in 1970's London, all while battling and balancing addiction. Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter of a century - and the first to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr and Burroughs himself.