William S. Burroughs home in New Orleans

New Orleans is known for such literary figures as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Mark Twain and O. Henry, all of whom spent a little time in the Crescent City.
Less well-known is the fact that mid-20th century writers like William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac have been here as well. That's not completely unknown, but it's not as well-known as the facts about the other writers.
For a short time in the late 1940s, Burroughs lived in a house on the other side of the Mississippi River from New Orleans proper, a part of the city known as Algiers.