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"Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)", Volume 152 (1995)

Detroit, Michigan, US: Gale Research, Inc. (reference book), 1995. Part 1: 11.25" x 8.625" x 0.875", 319 pages, hardcover in blue cloth boards, no dust jacket. Volume 152 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) , subtitled American Novelists, Since World War II , edited by James R. and Wanda H. Giles and published by Gale Research Inc. (Detroit, Michigan, US) in 1995, in uncovered hardcovers . The DLB is a long series with many volumes. On pages 14–34, Leon Lewis of Appalachian State University provides the biographical entry for William S. Burroughs, including a bibliography and references. A photograph of William S. Burroughs by Maarten Corbyn leads the entry on page 14. Page 17 includes a picture of Burroughs at Harvard at age twenty-one. Page 20 features an uncredited photo of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin together in Paris in 1959. A cover of the first edition of The Naked Lunch , without dust jacket, published by the Olympia Press, is on page 23. An un...

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