William Burroughs - in pictures

The author of Naked Lunch was born 100 years ago today. From his friendships with Beat authors such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, to his meetings with Dennis Hopper and Sting, browse images from a long and disreputable life

First published on Wed 5 Feb 2014 03.00 EST

• William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac in New York, 1953

  Photograph: Allen Ginsberg/Corbis

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• Burroughs sitting at a table with typewriter, 1959

  Photograph: Loomis Dean/Getty Image

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• Peter Orlovsky and Jack Kerouac pose in their shorts, while Burroughs takes a nap fully clothed on a beach in Tangier, Morocco, c1957

  Photograph: Allen Ginsberg/Corbis

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• Burroughs in the Beat Hotel, Paris, 1959

  Photograph: Loomis Dean/Getty Images

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• Burroughs in Paris, c1964

  Photograph: Getty Images

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• Burroughs in 1965

  Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

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• Burroughs' apartment in a converted YMCA building, which he called The Bunker, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, 1977

  Photograph: Caterine Milinaire/Corbis

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• Burroughs with Dennis Hopper, February 1977

  Photograph: Caterine Milinaire/ Caterine Milinaire/Sygma/Corbis

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• Allen Ginsberg and Burroughs (smoking) sit with French writer Jean Genet in the audience of the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois

  Photograph: Hulton/Getty Images

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• Burroughs and Joe Strummer of The Clash in The Bunker, 1980

  Photograph: Victor Bockris/Corbis

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• Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997), Gregory Corso (1930 - 2001), and William Burroughs (1914 - 1997) in Boulder, Colorado, 1994

  Photograph: Chris Felver/Getty Images

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• Burroughs in Chicago, 1981

  Photograph: Paul Natkin/WireImage

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• Burroughs celebrates his 70th birthday at the Limelight dance club in New York

  Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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• Burroughs with Sting and Andy Summers of the Police at his birthday party in the Limelight club, New York

  Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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• Burroughs with a knife in his New York apartment, The Bunker

  Photograph: Victor Bockris/Corbis

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• Burroughs on the set of The Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg

  Photograph: Jean-Louis Atlan/Corbis

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• Burroughs during the 1990s

  Photograph: William Coupon/Corbis

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