- Born
- Died
- Composer and author, educated at the University of Virginia, he studied with Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson, and received Guggenheim and Rockefeller grants. Paul Bowles joined ASCAP in 1945, and he researched folk music in Spain, North Africa, the Antilles, and South and Central America. He lived 52 years in Tangier, Morocco as an expatriate writer. Bowles was married to the writer and playwright Jane Bowles.
- IMDb mini biography by: friend
- SpouseJane Sydney Auer(February 21, 1938 - May 4, 1973) (her death)
- His name would be used by Christopher Isherwood for his character Sally "Bowles".
- Cousin to set designer/art director/producer Oliver Smith.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 57-59. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- His parents died in June 1966, passing away 22 days apart from each other.
- His novel "The Sheltering Sky" is considered one of the 100 best novels of the 20th Century.
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