Occupation Novelist , Short story writer, Essayist Genres Beat , Science fiction , Satire Literary movement Beat Postmodern Notable work(s) Naked Lunch , Junky , Queer Spouse(s) Ilse von Klapper (1937-1946) Joan Vollmer (1946-1951) Children William S. Burroughs, Jr. Relative(s) William Seward Burroughs I , grandfather Ivy Lee , maternal uncle