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Paul Bowles
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American composer and writer (1910–1999)
Film & TV
Queens, New York, USA
Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) 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. Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his…
Known for
- Five Eyes2025
- Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open — Self2013
- Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles — Self (archive footage)1999
- Tanger - Legende einer Stadt — Interviewer1999
- My Sweet Little Ass1998
- Paul Bowles: Half Moon — Narrator1995
- Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider — Self1994
- An American in Tangier — Self1993
- The Sheltering Sky — Narrator (voice)1990
- Rolling Stones - in Morocco1989
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1910-12-30 ) December 30, 1910, Queens , New York , United States
- Died
- November 18, 1999 (1999-11-18) (aged 88), Tangier , Morocco
- Occupations
- American composer, author and translator
- Notable work
- The Sheltering Sky
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Queens
- Place of death
- Tangier
- Spouse
- Jane Bowles
- Occupation
- poet
- Employer
- California State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Virgil Thomson
- Genre
- poetry
- Movement
- Beat Generation
- Official website
- www.paulbowles.org
- Image
- פול בולס.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1910-12-30
- date of death
- 1999-01-01
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- cause of death
- heart failure
- P12674
- Rosa Albach-Retty
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Paul Bowles
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Paul Bowles, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Frederic Bowles (/boʊlz/; December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American 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.
Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel The Sheltering Sky (1949), set in French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paul Bowles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.