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	A visit with Paul Bowles by Annette Solyst
		Bowles' own irresistible desire to visit Gertrude Stein while he was in Paris as a young man. On a piece of notepaper I carried in my bag, I scribbled something incoherent about his visit to Ms.
		Paul Bowles was in a small room in the back of the apartment, obviously a combination of bedroom and work room.
		Paul Bowles died on November 18, 1999 in Tangier at the age of 88.
	www.soly.st /Morocco/Bowles.html (2090 words)

	Paul Bowles
		Paul Bowles was born in New York in 1910.
		Bowles studied composition with Aaron Copeland in New York and Berlin, and with Virgil Thomson in Paris.
		Paul Gray, in his review of Collected Stories, wrote in Time magazine that, "he writes from a sensibility that is foreign or at least remote from the American ordinary - a sensibility that identifies with nature, natural forces and spirit of place.
	www.reaaward.org /html/paul_bowles.html (490 words)

	Paul Bowles. Biography and complete works
		Paul Bowles wrote the opera Denmark Vesey, (1937), followed by The Wind Remains, (1941), with a libretto arranged from words by Federico García Lorca.
		Bowles believed that somewhere out there was a magic place or state of mind, a place that would deliver them into the ecstasy of personal revelation.
		Paul Bowles died of a heart attack in a Tangier hospital on November 18, 1999.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/bowles.htm (1094 words)

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		Bowles was awarded a $2500 Guggenheim fellowship to compose his opera Yerma, and Virgil Thompson offered him a job as assistant music critic on the New York Herald Tribune, a position he held for four years.
		Bowles used the novel, which opens in 1954 during the holy month of Ramadan, to explore the shifting relationship between the colonial power of the French and the rising tide of Moroccan nationalism.
		Paul Bowles was an intensely private man, possessed of a dry New England sense of humour and a capacity for friendship which was at odds with his public persona as a detached, often aloof, observer.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/bowles.html (2202 words)

	Paul Bowles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bowles said he wrote this and several other stories after reading transcriptions of American Indian myths and deciding he wanted to “invent my own myths, adopting the point of view of the primitive mind.
		Bowles’ explication of his own process does not detract from the power and beauty of “A Distant Episode” or his other stories or novels, but it does demonstrate how almost invariably annoying it is when writers discuss their own work.
		What’s more, the story, the process by which Bowles claims to have written it, and the sixteen-year-old boy’s reaction to it serve to elucidate the not-so-appealing “point of view” of Bowles and the post-war generation of artsy bohemians and middle class hipsters he inspired.
	www.goodbyemag.com /nov99/bowles.html (626 words)

	WAG: Paul Bowles Comes Home
		It was only with extreme reluctance that Bowles returned to the U.S., and he was soon to leave again not merely for Europe, but North Africa as well.
		In 1931, when Bowles first visited Tangier (at the suggestion of Gertrude Stein and in the company of Aaron Copland), it was a busily exotic international city.
		Paul Bowles was born in New York in 1910, but after leaving America during his college years, he became an exaptriate writer and composer known for his existentialist-tinged themes.
	www.thewag.net /books/bowles.htm (1897 words)

	CRITIQUE :: Stranger in a Strange Land: Paul Bowles
		Paul Bowles was waiting at the door of his fourth-floor apartment.
		Bowles explained to me that when a sick or depressed Moroccan says "I think I need to dance," it means he needs "jilala" therapy.
		Paul Bowles went to Morocco the first time in 1931 on the recommendation of his new friend, Gertrude Stein.
	www.critiquemagazine.com /article/bowles.html (3372 words)

	AllRefer.com - Paul Bowles (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Paul Bowles 1910–99, American writer and composer, b.
		He studied in Paris with Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland and composed (1930s–40s) a number of modernist operas, ballets, song cycles, and orchestral and chamber pieces.
		Bowles was also an accomplished travel writer, poet, and photographer.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bowles-P.html (382 words)

	THE PAUL BOWLES MOROCCAN MUSIC COLLECTION (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
		Bowles captured vocal and instrumental (including dance) music of various tribes and other indigenous populations at 23 locations throughout the country.
		Bowles collected in 23 villages, towns, and cities along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, from Goulimine in the Sahara to Segangan in the Rif country, and inland through the Middle and Grand Atlas ranges to Zagora in the Anti-Atlas.
		Paul Bowles (1910-) is an American-born artist who has lived in Morocco since the late 1930s.
	www.loc.gov /folklife/guides/paulbowles.html (2070 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Stories of Paul Bowles: Books: Paul Bowles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The natives of Bowles foreign locales are usually not given much in the way of individual identities, it is the westerners who are singled out for study, the stories take place in their minds and thought processes.
		Bowles' westerners are all met at a time in their lives when they are at a breaking point(Echo)or seeking departure from the past(Pages From Cold Point), or a spouse (Call at Corazon).
		Bowles did spend his entire writing career in North Africa and South America so the stories are rich with details but they remain settings merely, however elaborate.
	www.amazon.ca /Stories-Paul-Bowles/dp/006093784X (1502 words)

	A visit with Paul Bowles by Annette Solyst
		Bowles' own irresistible desire to visit Gertrude Stein while he was in Paris as a young man. On a piece of notepaper I carried in my bag, I scribbled something incoherent about his visit to Ms.
		Paul Bowles was in a small room in the back of the apartment, obviously a combination of bedroom and work room.
		Paul Bowles died on November 18, 1999 in Tangier at the age of 88.
	soly.st /Morocco/Bowles.html (2090 words)

	Paul Bowles
		Paul Bowles had two careers, one as a composer of music for films, dance theater, and Broadway; the other as a writer of extraordinary fiction of the Beat era.
		Paul Bowles was born in New York City on December 30, 1910.
		Having read somewhere that Paul Bowles did not have, or want, a telephone, I had written him a letter before my first visit, asking if he would mind meeting with me. He graciously wrote back immediately, and I later discovered that many people simply show up at his apartment, introducing themselves on the spot.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/b/bowles_paul.htm (777 words)

	Paul Bowles Criticism
		Paul Bowles is a man and author of exceptional latitude but he has, like nearly all serious artists, a dominant theme.
		Paul Bowles stages his impressive novels in a climate of violence and pervading sentient awareness.
		Bowles is writing in a well-defined romantic—decadent mode with such a sharp reportorial eye for current realities that his story is fully engaging so long as we can keep from thinking about its philosophic intentions or about the character of the hero.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Paul_Bowles (925 words)

	Paul Bowles Collection
		Paul Frederic Bowles, born December 30, 1910, in New York City, was the only child of Claude Dietz and Rena Winnewisser Bowles.
		Bowles began writing short stories and composing music as a child, and he was only a teenager when his surrealist poetry was published in the magazine Transition.
		Bowles briefly attended the University of Virginia but dropped out in 1929 and moved to Paris where he met and became friends with Gertrude Stein.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/bowles.paul.html (1324 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Stories of Paul Bowles: Livres en anglais: Paul Bowles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As elusive as his enigmatic fiction, which is epitomized by the 1949 autobiographical bestselling novel, The Sheltering Sky, Bowles (1910-2001) arguably has been venerated as much for being the mythical forerunner of the Beat Generation as for his considerable genius, both musical and literary.
		Bowles cofounded Antaeus magazine with Daniel Halpern in 1968, and soon afterward the magazine became the Ecco Press.
		In appearance, Bowles was an elegant man, but as a narrator he was remote, pitiless, and unsympathetic, and he dealt harshly with his characters, whether Moroccan or European expatriates.
	www.amazon.fr /Stories-Paul-Bowles/dp/006093784X (684 words)

	LitKicks: Paul Bowles
		Paul Bowles was born in New York City on December 30, 1910.
		Bowles believed that somewhere out there was a magic place or state of mind, a place that would deliver them into the ecstasy of personal revelation.
		Paul Bowles died of a heart attack in a Tangier hospital on November 18, 1999.
	www.litkicks.com /People/PaulBowles.html (528 words)

	The Generalist: TANGIERS 2: PAUL BOWLES
		A critically acclaimed writer and composer, Paul found Morocco, the perfect setting for his perverse visionary fiction, and for the quotidian intrigue that he loved.
		Paul Bowles, who died in Tangier at the 88 in November 1995, is particularly fascinating - a kind of pole star around which the whole scene revolves, one of the earliest of the writers to take up residence there and one of the last to leave.
		Paul Bowles: Online Exhibition and Internet Source Page, produced by the Special Collections Department of the Universe of Delaware Library.
	hqinfo.blogspot.com /2006/08/tangiers-2-paul-bowles.html (631 words)

	Paul Bowles - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Paul Bowles - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bowles, Paul (1910-1999), American writer and composer, born in New York City.
		Bowles, Chester (1901-1986), American diplomat and public administrator, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Sheffield Scientific...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Paul_Bowles.html (64 words)

	PAUL BOWLES PHOTOGRAPHS: Literary Friends, Part Three
		Paul Bowles in New York with Jonathan Sheffer and the EOS Orchestra; with Phillip Ramey at the New York School for Social Research Symposium
		Paul Bowles at Phillip Ramey's reception; Rodrigo Rey Rosa, composers John Corigliano and Ned Rorem, Raphael Aladdin Cohen, Allen Hibbard, Gavin Lambert, Claude Nathalie Thomas and Joseph A. McPhillips III
		Photographs of Paul Bowles' Funeral and Burial in the Lakemont, New York Cemetery on November 1, 2000
	www.paulbowles.org /photoslit3.html (1943 words)

	Paul Bowles Summary
		Paul Bowles has never fit well into a single category; he is intensely private, preferring to display his life only in art and variously as poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, journalist, musicologist, and composer (operas, film and theatre s...
		Even though Paul Bowles (1910-1999) wrote stories, composed music, and lived in some of the world's most exotic places, he was not one who craved recognition.
		Paul Bowles was born in New York City, the only child of Claude Dietz Bowles, a dentist, and Rena Winewisser.
	www.bookrags.com /Paul_Bowles (480 words)

	Gary Conklin Films - Paul Bowles in Morocco
		Bowles is also a student of the area’s music and the soundtrack provided a first rate accompaniment of dazzling rhythms."
		Bowles, urbane, sophisticated, knowledgeable – complete with flowing robes, cigarette holder and, at one point, sunglasses.
		It s all an idea, not a reality, but travel is real because you may get bogged down in a place for years, or for the rest of your life, you never know.
	garyconklinfilms.com /Bowles.html (315 words)

	WAG: Paul Bowles's The Stories of Paul Bowles
		(Bowles died in 1999 at the age of eighty-eight.) True, many of his six short fiction books are still in print, and in 1993 his steadfast publisher, Ecco Press, issued a superb anthology (Too Far From Home: Selected Writings of Paul Bowles) that included some of his best short fiction.
		And since the stories (sixty-two in all) are presented in chronological order, we can watch Bowles establish and refine his central themes as well as witness how his notion of the form changed over nearly fifty years.
		Paul Bowles's ruthless unsentimentality and cruel wit are not for everyone.
	www.thewag.net /books/bowles2.htm (1101 words)

	Paul Bowles - Penguin Classics Authors - Penguin Classics
		Paul Bowles was born in Jamaica, New York, in 1910.
		He began composing music and writing stories at a very early age, and at sixteen some of his poetry was published in the French literary magazine transition.
		In his obituary The Times described Bowles as 'one of the most unusual, unconventional and gifted men of his time', and the Independent wrote: 'Bowles was a mystic, a man of many abilities...
	www.penguinclassics.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000001384,00.html (196 words)

	Paul Bowles · Music
		I first heard Paul Bowles’ lively music on the radio, and then found his "Night Waltz" on an old Columbia album of piano works by various composers played by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale.
		Years later, I read about New York’s Eos Orchestra giving a Bowles festival at their first concerts in 1995 — the music hadn’t been heard in over four decades — and I finally caught them live at the Guggenheim this October.
		The Bowles who reveals himself in an interview with fellow composer Phillip Ramey sometimes sounds like a cross between Andy Warhol and Quentin Crisp.
	www.msu.edu /user/gualtie3/PaulBowles.htm (596 words)

	PAUL BOWLES 1910 - 1999
		Paul Bowles, 1910-1999 features manuscripts and papers acquired by the University of Delaware Library from Bowles in 1999, shortly before his death.
		The exhibit supplements and enhances the Library's exhibition of a decade earlier, Paul Bowles at 80.
		The Authorized Paul Bowles Web Site includes biographical essays, catalogs of his literary and musical works, and photographs by friends and colleagues such as Millicent Dillon, Benjamin Folkman, Irene Herrmann, Allen Hibbard, Gavin Lambert, Kenneth Lisenbee, Cherie Nutting, Phillip Ramey, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Ned Rorem, Claude Nathalie Thomas, and Tessa Codrington Wheeler
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/bowles (319 words)

	Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House (Library of America)
		Paul Bowles's "canonization as an American classic is well deserved because of the fearlessness of his imagination and the force of his art."—World Literature Today
		Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at the age of 38, he published The Sheltering Sky and became widely recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period.
		In a prose style of meticulous calm and stunning visual precision, Bowles tracks Port and Kit Moresby on a journey through the desert that culminates in death and madness.
	www.loa.org /volume.jsp?RequestID=181 (511 words)

	Paul Bowles, Man of Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bowles was certainly my favorite living novelist at the time (unless you count Castaneda as a novelist).
		Conversations with Paul Bowles and he signed it, “To Jake Horsley on his return to Tangier.” When I told him, with a slight smile, that it was my favorite of all his books, he looked flabbergasted and said, “But it’s not.” In fact, he hadn’t even known it existed until he saw my copy.
		Bowles himself, on the other hand, was astonishing frank in his interviews.
	www.divinevirus.com /bowles.html (815 words)

	New book on author Paul Bowles
		Paul Bowles is perhaps best known as the author of The Sheltering Sky, the popular novel that was later turned into a feature film in 1990 starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger.
		Paul Bowles on Music, co-edited by UCSC lecturer Irene Herrmann, is a collection of music criticism by Bowles, written between 1935 and 1946.
		Herrmann met Bowles in 1992 when she began to research his music.
	currents.ucsc.edu /03-04/09-15/bowles.html (778 words)

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