Paul Bowles, 1910-
Collection, 1897-1995 11 boxes (4.58 linear feet), 5 oversize boxes, 4 galley folders Acquisition: Purchase and gifts, 1967-1997
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Chelsea S. Jones and Dell Hollingsworth, 1999
RLIN Record ID: Table of Contents
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Index of Correspondents ...
Index of Works by other Authors Biographical Sketch 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. This began over forty years of nearly constant traveling for Bowles, who once said of himself that he was addicted to movement. He returned to the University of Virginia in the spring of 1930, but left again after one semester to study music, first under Aaron Copland in Berlin (1930-32) and then with Virgil Thomson in Paris (1933-34). During these years he also made his first visit, at Stein's suggestion, to Tangier, Morocco. In 1937, Bowles met author and playwright Jane Auer; they were married the following year. The Bowleses eventually settled in Tangier, although both traveled often throughout North Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. At one point Paul even owned Taprobane, an island off the coast of Sri Lanka. | |
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