Name: William Seward Burroughs II
Pen Name: William Lee
Born: February 5, 1914 St. Louis Missouri, U.S.
Died: August 2, 1997 Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Cause of Death: Complications of a heart attack
Genre: Satire, Paranoid Fiction
Literary Movement: Beat Generation, Postmodernism
Notable Works: Naked Lunch, Junkie, The Wild Boys
Fun Fact: Burroughs was fictionalized in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical novel On the Road as "Old Bull Lee".