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Bowles, Paul ___ 1910-1999 ___ American
___ writer
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Bowles was born in New York City,
and began writing short stories and composing music as a child. He started
to study at the University of Virginia but did not stay long, preferring
to travel to Paris where he met Gertrude Stein. He did try to study again
at the University of Virginia in 1930, but before long had returned to Europe,
first to Berlin to study music with Aaron Copland and then to Paris again.
In 1938, he married Jane Auer, another writer, and together they moved to
Tangier. They did, however, travel often around North Africa, and to Europe
and the Americas. In the 1940s, in the US, Bowles became a well-known composer
writing music for plays (such as 'South Pacific') and ballets (such as 'Yankee
Clipper'). He also wrote a large variety of travel books, worked as a music
critic for the 'New York Herald-Tribune', and prepared translations from
French and Spanish. Around 1945, he started writing fiction, and his first
novel, 'The Sheltering Sky' was a best-seller, and remains a classic today.
In 1947, the couple went to live more permanently in Tangier. In the 1950s,
Bowles began translating Moroccan literature into English. In 1970, he founded
the literary magazine 'Antaeus' with Daniel Halpern. After the death of
his wife in Spain in 1973, Bowles spent the rest of his life in Morocco.
Between 1987 and 1989, he kept a journal to record the daily events of his
life.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1987-1989 ___ social health people
self creativity Morocco
WEB TEXT LINKS
about
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas - not here, but
may know
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Days: Tangier Journal
May 06
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |