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Paul Frederic Bowles ( / boʊlz /; December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999 [1]) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.
Paul Bowles (born December 30, 1910, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 18, 1999, Tangier, Morocco) was an American-born composer, translator, and author of novels and short stories in which violent events and psychological collapse are recounted in a detached and elegant style.
May 11, 2018 · Paul Theroux recounts his meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier and his impression of the novelist's life and work. He explores Bowles's themes of travel, nihilism, and existentialism in The Sheltering Sky, his first and most famous novel.
Nov 18, 1999 · Paul Bowles grew up in New York, and attended college at the University of Virginia before traveling to Paris, where became a part of Gertrude Stein's literary and artistic circle. Following her advice, he took his first trip to Tangiers in 1931 with his friend, composer Aaron Copeland.
Paul Bowles. 3.89. 28,703 ratings2,197 reviews. In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them.
Nov 19, 1999 · Paul Bowles, the novelist, composer, poet and quintessential outsider of American literature, died of a heart attack yesterday in a hospital in Tangier, Morocco.
Paul Bowles has 281 books on Goodreads with 124961 ratings. Paul Bowles’s most popular book is The Sheltering Sky.
