biography
| name: |
Bowles, Paul (Frederick)
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pronunciation:
[bohlz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1910–99)
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| biography:
| Writer and composer, born in New York City, New York, USA. The son of a dentist (whom he never forgave for working so hard on his teeth), he went to Paris in the late 1920s and had his poetry published in Transition. After studying with Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson, he composed theatre music, film scores, and opera in the 1930s–1940s. He married the writer Jane Bowles in 1938. His first novel, The Sheltering Sky (1949), dealt with expatriate travellers in non-Western lands, the theme of much of his later fiction. Settling in Tangier, Morocco (1952), he collected and translated much Moroccan folklore while becoming something of a cult figure for the international literary set. |
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