Burroughs,William Seward

Burroughs,William Seward
I. Burroughs1, William Seward. 1855-1898.
American inventor who in the early 1890s designed and patented the first practical adding machine.
  II. Burroughs2, William Seward. 1914-1997.
American writer noted especially for Naked Lunch (1959), a surrealist portrait of drug addiction.

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  • William Seward Burroughs — n. (1855 1898) USA inventor of the 1st practical adding machine in 1892; William Seward Burroughs (1914 1997), USA author who wrote about the life of drug addicts, grandson of the inventor William Seward Burroughs …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Burroughs, William S. — ▪ American writer in full  William Seward Burroughs  born February 5, 1914, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. died August 2, 1997, Lawrence, Kansas       American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish,… …   Universalium

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