"Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)", Volume 16 (1983)

Detroit, Michigan, US: Gale Research Company and Book Tower (reference book), 1983.
Part 1: 11.25" x 8.625" x 1", 357 pages, hardcover in blue cloth boards, no dust jacket.
Part 2: 11.25" x 8.625" x 1", 361 pages, hardcover in blue cloth boards, no dust jacket.
Together: ISBN 0-8103-1148-8. 

The two books in volume 16 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), subtitled The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America, edited by Ann Charters and published by Gale Research Company and Book Tower (Detroit, Michigan, US) in 1983, in uncovered hardcovers. The DLB is a long series with many volumes beyond this volume 16.

In Part 1, scholar Jennie Skerl writes the entry for William S. Burroughs, which is on pages 45–69. It includes multiple photographs of Burroughs [including photographs by Gerard Malanga and Christopher Felver], reproductions of his book covers, a bibliography, and references.

A photo of William S. Burroughs with Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky by Gerard Malanga is on page 137. 

The entry for William S. Burroughs' son follows his. 

The endpapers of Part 1 include a photograph of Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs by Gerard Malanga. This image is also reproduced on page 244.

Part 2 contains "A Beat Chronology: The First Twenty-five Years, 1944–1969" by Jennie Skerl, pp. 593–606; Burroughs appears frequently in this chronology. Also of interest is the section "Periodicals of the Beat Generation" by George F. Burrerick, pp. 651–688, which contains reproductions of many of the mentioned periodicals, some of which Burroughs was published in.

Burroughs also shows up occasionally in the listings of other Beats in both parts of Volume 16.

Part 1 Contents: 

• Ann Charters: Foreword
• Permissions
• Acknowledgments
• James A. Miller: "Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)"
• Edith Jarolim: "Paul Blackburn"
• Michael Perkins: "Bonnie Bremser"
• Arnold Moodnik and Mikhail Horowitz: "Ray Bremser"
• Samuel Charters: "Chandler Brossard"
• Jennie Skerl: "William S. Burroughs"
• Jennie Skerl and James Grauerholz: "William S. Burroughs, Jr."
• Douglas K. Macdonald: "Paul Carroll"
• Joy Walsh: "Carolyn Cassady"
• Gerald Nicosia: "Neal Cassady"
• Tom Swartz and Michael Wojczuk: "Andy Clausen"
• Marilyn Schwartz: "Gregory Corso"
• Ekbert Faas: "Robert Creeley"
• George F. Butterick: "Diane DiPrima [sic, di Prima]" 
• Raymond Foye: "Kirby Doyle"
• Michael Davidson: "Robert Duncan"
• Joseph Wenke: "Bob Dylan"
• James A. Powell: "William Everson (Brother Antoninus)"
• Larry Smith: "Lawrence Ferlinghetti"
• Paul Christensen: "Allen Ginsberg"
• Terry Wilson: "Brion Gysin"
• Richard Kirk Ardinger: "John Clellon Holmes"
• Arthur Winfield Knight: "Herbert Huncke"
• James A. Miller: "Ted Joans"
• Donna Nance: "Lenore Kandel"
• A. D. Winans: "Bob Kaufman"
• George Dardess: "Jack Kerouac"
• Gerald Nicosia: "Jan Kerouac"
• Ann Charters: "Ken Kesey"
• Joseph Wenke: "Seymour Krim"
• Joseph Wenke: "Tuli Kupferberg"
• Bill Berkson: "Joanne Kyger"
• Nancy J. Peters: "Philip Lamantia"
• John Clellon Holmes: "Jay Landesman / Fran Landesman"
• Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shalin: "Timothy Leary"
• Nettie Lipton: "Lawrence Lipton"
• Contributors

Part 2 Contents: 

• Permissions 
• Acknowledgments
• Joseph Wenke: "Norman Mailer"
• George F. Butterick: "Edward Marshall"
• Michael McClure: "Joanna McClure"
• William R. King: "Michael McClure"
• Gordon Ball: "Taylor Mead"
• Robert Hawley and Ann Charters: "David Meltzer"
• Gerald Nicosia: "Jack Micheline"
• Jim Christy: "John Montgomery"
• Kit Knight: "Harold Norse"
• Bill Berkson: "Frank O'Hara"
• Paul Christensen: "Charles Olson"
• Ann Charters: "Peter Orlovsky"
• Larry Smith: "Kenneth Patchen"
• Paul Vangelisti: "Stuart Z. Perkoff"
• Brown Miller: "Charles Plymell"
• Hugh Fox: "Dan Propper"
• Brown Miller and Ann Charters: "Kenneth Rexroth"
• George F. Butterick: "Michael Rumaker"
• George F. Butterick: "Ed Sanders"
• Dan McLeod: "Gary Snyder"
• Tom Collins: "Carl Solomon"
• Michael Davidson: "Jack Spicer"
• Pat Nolan: "Charles Upton"
• R'lene H. Dahlberg: "Janine Pommy Vega"
• Ann Charters: "Anne Waldman"
• Dan McLeod: "Alan Watts"
• Samuel Charters: "Lew Welch"
• Paul Christensen: "Philip Whalen"
• Raymond Foye: "John Wieners"
• Paul Christensen: "William Carlos Williams"
• Appendices:
• Jennie Skerl: "A Beat Chronology: The First Twenty-Five Years"
• Carolyn Cassady: "As I See It"
• Joyce Johnson: "Outlaw Days"
• John Clellon Holmes: "Four Essays on the Beat Generation":
• "The Name of the Game"
• "This Is the Beat Generation (1952)"
• "The Philosophy of the Beat Generation (1958)"
• "The Game of the Name (1965)"
• Kenneth Rexroth: "The Commercialization of the Image of Revolt"
• George F. Butterick: "Periodicals of the Beat Generation"
• Books for Further Reading
• Contributors
• Cumulative Index