Burroughs
Burroughs is a surname associated with two influential American writers.
Edgar Rice Burroughs created Tarzan and wrote pulp adventure fiction in the early twentieth century.
William S.
Burroughs was a Beat Generation novelist known for experimental, transgressive works like *Naked Lunch*.
The name also belonged to the Burroughs Corporation, a major computer and business equipment company that merged with Sperry to form Unisys in 1986.
Male given name
- Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
- Naked LunchFragmentary Beat novel
- cut-upHabitual joker or clown
- Ginsberg"Howl" writer, beatnik
Kerouac · counterculture · experimental · transgressive · addiction · typewriter · literary · avant-garde
Mechanical arithmetic device
- calculatorElectronic computation device
- business machinesCommercial workplace apparatus
- office equipmentTools for workplace tasks
- typewriterMechanical printing keyboard
accounting · patents · computing · mechanical · corporate · American · manufacturer · bookkeeping
Fictional ape-raised man
John Carter · jungle · serialized · science fiction · fantasy · Tarzana · princess · swashbuckling
William
Male given name
- Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
- Naked LunchFragmentary Beat novel
- cut-upHabitual joker or clown
Ginsberg · Kerouac · counterculture · experimental · transgressive · addiction · typewriter · literary · avant-garde · subversive
adding machine
Mechanical arithmetic device
- calculatorElectronic computation device
- business machinesCommercial workplace apparatus
- office equipmentTools for workplace tasks
typewriter · accounting · patents · computing · mechanical · corporate · American · manufacturer · bookkeeping · Detroit
Tarzan
Fictional ape-raised man
John Carter · apes · jungle · serialized · science fiction · fantasy · Tarzana · princess · swashbuckling · paperback
family name
Hereditary portion of identity
heritage · ancestry · descendants · lineage · namesake · notable · dynasty
- Calculator MakersCasio, Texas Instruments, HP, Hewlett-Packard, Monroe
- adding machinesMonroe, Victor, subtotal
- BeatniksJack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, On the Road, Howl, Beat Generation
- Modern AuthorsColson Whitehead, Sally Rooney, Colleen Hoover, Barbara Kingsolver, Donna Tartt
- calculating machinescalculator, adding machine, difference engine, abacus, desk calculator
- ModernistsPicasso, Duchamp, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Stravinsky
BurroughsJohn Updike
Saul Bellow · Philip Roth · Ernest Hemingway · John Steinbeck · Jane Austen
BurroughsNorman Rockwell
Billy Graham · Pat Boone · Middle America · clean-cut · wholesome
BurroughsHenry James
"The Ambassadors" author
Marcel Proust · Virginia Woolf · James Joyce · literary fiction · domestic drama
borough, boroughs, burgh, burrow, burrows, burrowed, burrowing