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His parents decided to give him $200 monthly to keep the author going and it helped him be freer in other areas of his life, choosing where to live and not having to be employed to earn money. He would attend various underground bars and dives with his wealthy pal from Kansas City, Richard Stern. He frequented Greenwich Village and Harlem. William was introduced to the gay culture in New York City while vising there on trips while enrolled in Harvard. He also began attending brothels, where he reportedly lost his virginity to one of the women that worked there. However, he did not particularly care for reporting. He earned money during the summers by reporting for the St. In 1932, he headed off to Harvard University to get his arts degree. He would then go on to enroll in high school in Clayton, Missouri, at the Taylor school. He left Los Alamos during his second year after convincing his family to let him stay in St. 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.