Burroughs would keep his sexual orientation hidden from his family long after he was an adult. It was there that he first became aware of his sexuality, journaling about his feelings to another boy there that he would later destroy due to shame. William would later enroll in the boarding school Los Alamos Ranch school as a student. The 1929 essay focused on telepathic mind-control. One of his earlier writings was the essay “Personal Magnetism”, which would be published in the John Burroughs Review. Louis and would attend the John Burroughs School. When he was young, the author lived in the central West End of St. Burroughs had a fascination with magic and the occult as a child, which would later figure into his writing. Louis and then Palm Beach, Florida when the family moved there. Mortimer ran a gift shop that featured antiques in St. His brother Ivy Lee would work in advertising and then later as a publicist. His grandfather William Seward Burroughs with whom he shared the same name had founded a company called the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which would later be known as the Burroughs Corporation. He was born one of two sons to his father Mortimer Perry Burroughs and his wife, Laura Hamon Lee. He was born on Februand passed away on August 2, 1997. Burroughs was an American noted published author of fictional novels.
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