Naked Lunch Author William S. Burroughs
by The Estate Of David Gahr
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Naked Lunch Author William S. Burroughs
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The Estate Of David Gahr
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NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 1965: American writer William S. Burroughs, (William Seward Burroughs - February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997), left, fedora and tie, smoking, and poet Peter Orlovsky, right, knit cap, pose for a portrait in February, 1965 while attending the opening party for the Peace Eye Bookstore on 10th Street and Avenue C on the Lower East Side in New York City, New York. William S. Burrough's associations with poet Allen Ginsberg ('Howl', 1956) and the writer Jack Kerouac ('On the Road', 1957) was the foundation for the 'Beat Generation' of the 1950s and a profound influence on the countercultural movement of the 1960s. Burrough's 1959 experimental novel 'Naked Lunch' was a literary sensation, hailed by literary lions like Norman Mailer and Mary McCarthy, and subject to a number of censorship trials for obscenity for the books' Americanb publisher, Grove Press, and publishers in Europe. Peter Orlovsky, right, was a poet and actor and longtime companion to Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. The Peace Eye Bookstore, run by writer, poet, and musician Ed Sanders on the site of a former kosher meat market on NYC's Lower East Side, was a vital hub of countercultural and experimental publications and performance from 1965 thru 1968. (Photo by David Gahr/Getty Images)
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