He famously shot and killed his wife Joan Vollmer in a drunken “William Tell act” at a party in Mexico City in 1951.
He has written about being a junkie and robbing passed-out drunks for fix money. For long stretches of his life, he associated with criminals and the seediest countercultures of hard drugs. He suffered sexual abuse as a child from a caregiver. He died in Lawrence, Kansas in 1997.īurroughs is a deeply problematic and divisive moral figure. Television / Radio / Streaming / Social Media.
