![]() ![]() And though he continued to suffer from a leaky heart valve, from all reports, he regained robust health quickly for a man of his years. Burroughs had undergone triple bypass surgery in 1991. Photography and in collecting and discharging firearms. But since 1981 he maintained a house in Lawrence, where he lived simply with three cats and indulged his interests in painting and Burroughs had lived in such places as New York, London, Paris, Mexico City and Tangier. The cause of his death, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, was a heart attack that he suffered on Friday, his publicist, Ira Silverberg, said. ![]() Burroughs, a renegade writer of the Beat Generation who stunned readers and inspired adoring cultists with his 1959 book "Naked Lunch," died yesterdayĪfternoon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kan. Burroughs Dies at 83 Member of the Beat Generation Wrote 'Naked Lunch' By RICHARD SEVERO Burroughs Dies at 83 Member of the Beat Generation Wrote 'Naked Lunch'ĪugWilliam S. ![]()
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