id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9709 William S. Burroughs - Wikipedia .html text/html 17391 1636 70 Before killing Vollmer, Burroughs had largely completed his first novel, Junkie, which was written at the urging of Allen Ginsberg, who was instrumental in getting the work published, even as a cheap mass-market paperback.[34] Ace Books published the novel in 1953 as part of an Ace Double under the pen name William Lee, retitling it Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (it was later republished as Junkie, then in 1977 as Junky, and finally in 2003 as Junky: the definitive text of 'Junk', edited by Oliver Harris').[34] International rights to the work were sold soon after, and Burroughs used the $3,000 advance from Grove Press to buy drugs (equivalent to approximately $26,000 in today's funds[15]).[5](pp316–326) Naked Lunch was featured in a 1959 Life magazine cover story, partly as an article that highlighted the growing Beat literary movement. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9709.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9709.txt