![]() ![]() He describes the writer as being “devastated” by the murder, and, in a nice bit of victim blaming, repeating the theory that the death was “an indirect suicide, which (Vollmer) had willed to happen.”Īlso reviewing the new biography, the Boston Globe's Matthew Gilbert called Vollmer's murder “the most defining event” in the author's history and that the murder gets “a chunk of space” in the book. They also spoke matter-of-factly about his shooting and killing his wife Joan Vollmer, as though it was just one more eccentric, quirky footnote in the life of a “great writer.”įor instance, Peter Schejeldahl, writing in the New Yorkerabout the new biography Call Me Burroughs, called the shooting “the most notorious event” in Burroughs life, but passes no judgment on the matter. Scholars commented on Burroughs' paranoid, futuristic voice, his connection with Beat generation writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and his noted drug habits, all of which, along with his privileged background, make up his public face. ![]() The date, as centenaries do, occasioned new biographies and appreciations. This year is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of celebrated novelist William S. Poet Joan Vollmer was killed by her husband, William S. ![]()
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