Lucien Carr
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Lucien Carr was an American journalist and editor who was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation, and in the 1940s was convicted for manslaughter. He later worked for
Carr in 1944
William S. Burroughs
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William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a postmodern author who influenced underground and popular cul
Lucien Carr
…life. Kammerer was a teacher of English and a physical education instructor at Washington University in St. Louis. Kammerer was a childhood friend of William S. Burroughs, another scion of St. Louis wealth who knew the Carr family. Burroughs and Kammerer had gone to primary school together, and as young men they traveled…
Burroughs in 1983
Burroughs's childhood home on Pershing Place in St. Louis
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