Which American novelist, poet and painter, a major figure of the Beat Generation who affected popular culture as well as literature, shot his wife in Mexico in 1951?
William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films. He was also briefly
Picts in literature and popular culture Picts in literature and popular culture The Picts, the people of eastern Scotland in the medieval Scotland, have frequently been represented in literature and popular culture. David MacRitchie was an outspoken proponent of the euhemeristic origin of fairies being the folk memory of Picts. He argued they were rooted in a real diminutive or pygmy-statured indigenous population that lived during the late Stone Age across the British Isles, especially Scotland: MacRitchie developed what became known as the "Pygmy-Pict theory" in his "The Testimony of Tradition" (1890) and "Fians, Fairies and Picts" (1893) regarding fairies to have been folk memories of