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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.

  2. 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.

  3. May 11, 2018 · He knew Bowles, because Bowles translated his first and best-known novel, For Bread Alone. He disparaged him in a genial way, then said, “He is a nihilist.” “Everyone is always leaving tomorrow,” Bowles had said to me when I told him I was taking the ferry back to Spain the next day.

  4. Jan 20, 2012 · One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) is profiled by a filmmaker who has been obsessed with his genius since age nineteen.

  5. Aug 30, 2009 · Paul Bowles’s first and best novel, “The Sheltering Sky,” published 60 years ago this fall, was a book few saw coming. Its author was better known as a composer.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

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