paragraph_text: thumb|Burroughs i [[David Woodard s Dreamachineom, oko 1997<ref>Chandarlapaty, R., "Woodard and Renewed Intellectual Possibilities", u Seeing the Beat Generation (Jefferson, NC, SAD: McFarland & Company, 2019), str. 98–101. ]] William Seward Burroughs II (5. veljače 1914. – 2. kolovoza 1997.), američki pisac, društveni kritičar, slikar i predvodnik beat generacije.