US: Thousands of pages of unpublished works and letters penned by "Beat Generation" writer William S Burroughs will be made public for the first time after being bought by a US library.
Experts said the archive, which includes drafts of the author's seminal Naked Lunch and has been bought by the New York Public Library for an undisclosed sum, would revolutionise the study of his work.
Of more than 11,000 pages of manuscripts and 3,000 pages of highly personal correspondence, only a handful have been seen before. The collection features previously unpublished letters between Burroughs, who died in 1997, and fellow "Beat Generation" writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.