The death of Joan Vollmer. When Burroughs and Vollmer arrived in the Roma district of Mexico City in 1949, the colonia was much as it is today: an upscale neighbourhood popular among visitors and ...

In 1945 in New York City, a 31-year-old Harvard graduate from St. Louis named William Seward Burroughs II was introduced to 22-year-old Barnard graduate Joan Vollmer by two young writers both knew ...

Pig-farmer Ralph Vollmer had first noticed his wife Joan was behaving strangely a few weeks before he decided to stage the violent four-day exorcism that led to her death.

Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes tell IndieWire how they wove Burroughs' accidental and morbidly slapstick murder of his wife, Joan Vollmer, into their film. “Queer,” a new ...

As for the murder of Joan Vollmer, "We had to find a way to bring that in while at the same time being very clear that we were making a movie about a fictional character Lee and not a real ...

Pig-farmer Ralph Vollmer had first noticed his wife Joan was behaving strangely a few weeks before he decided to stage the violent four-day exorcism that led to her death.

The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella ...

Written in the early ‘50s while Burroughs was awaiting trial for the allegedly accidental homicide of his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer, but not published until 1985, the novel is practically a ...

His wife, Joan Vollmer, was lost in depression, illness and alcoholism, driven to deterioration by her own demons and the rigours of her unhappy, abusive relationship with husband “Bill”.