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'''Paul Frederic Bowles''' ({{IPAc-en|b|oʊ|l|z}}; December 30, 1910{{spaced ndash}}November 18, 1999) was an American composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the [[Morocco|Moroccan]] city of [[Tangier]], where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2026-03-30 |title=Paul Bowles: American composer, translator, and author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Bowles |website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Bowles - Classical Music Composers |url=https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/composer/paul-bowles/ |access-date=2026-03-30 |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" />

In 1947, Bowles settled in [[Tangier]], at that time in the [[Tangier International Zone]], and his wife [[Jane Bowles]] followed in 1948. Except for winters spent in [[Ceylon]] during the early 1950s, Tangier was Bowles's home for the remainder of his life. He came to symbolize American immigrants in the city.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Paul Bowles |url=https://www.windrep.org/Paul_Bowles |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250405000156/https://www.windrep.org/Paul_Bowles |archive-date=2025-04-05 |access-date=2026-03-30 |work=Wind Repertory Project |language=en}}</ref>

==Life==

===1910–1930: family and education===
Paul Bowles was born in [[Jamaica, Queens|Jamaica]], [[Queens]], [[New York City]], as the only child of Rena (née Winnewisser) and Claude Dietz Bowles, a dentist. His childhood was materially comfortable, but his father was a cold and domineering parent, opposed to any form of play or entertainment, and feared by both his son and wife. According to family legend, Claude had tried to kill his newborn son by leaving him exposed on a window-ledge during a snowstorm. The story may not be true, but Bowles believed it was and that it encapsulated his relationship with his father.<ref>{{citation |last=Spencer Carr| first= Virginia| title= Paul Bowles: A Life| location= Evanston| publisher= Northwestern University Publishing| year= 2009| page= 1}}</ref> Warmth in his childhood was provided by his mother, who read [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] and [[Edgar Allan Poe]] to him&nbsp;– it was to the latter that he later attributed his own desire to write stories, such as "[[The Delicate Prey]]", "[[A Distant Episode]]", and "[[Pages from Cold Point]]".<ref name="Carr lib.udel.edu">{{cite web| url= http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/bowles/carr.htm |first= Virginia| last= Spencer Carr| title= Paul Bowles: An Introduction| publisher= Special Collections, University of Delaware }}</ref>

Bowles could read at age 3 and was writing stories by age 4. Soon, he wrote [[surrealist music|surrealistic]] poetry and music.<ref name="nytimes obit">{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/library/books/111999obit-p-bowles.html |title= Obituary for Paul Bowles| work= The New York Times| date= November 19, 1999}}</ref> In 1922, at age 11, he bought his first book of poetry, [[Arthur Waley]]'s ''A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems''. At age 17, he had a poem, "Spire Song", accepted for publication in the literary journal ''[[Transition (literary journal)|transition]]''. This Paris-based publication served as a forum for leading proponents of [[modernism]]&nbsp;– [[Djuna Barnes]], [[James Joyce]], [[Paul Éluard]], [[Gertrude Stein]] and others.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.paulbowles.org/bowlesbiography.html |first= Allen| last= Hibbard| title= Paul Bowles: A Biographical Essay| website= paulbowles.org }}</ref> Bowles's interest in music also dated from his childhood, when his father bought a [[phonograph]] and classical records. (Bowles was interested in [[jazz]], but such records were forbidden by his father.) His family bought a piano, and the young Bowles studied musical theory, singing, and piano. When he was 15, he attended a performance of [[Stravinsky]]'s ''[[The Firebird]]'' at [[Carnegie Hall]], which made a profound impression: "Hearing ''The Firebird'' made me determined to continue improvising on the piano when my father was out of the house, and to notate my own music with an increasing degree of knowing that I had happened upon a new and exciting mode of expression."<ref name="Carr lib.udel.edu"/> Bowles attended [[Jamaica High School]] in Queens, NY.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.archnet.org/authorities/2872 |title= Paul Bowles| website= archnet.org }}</ref>

Bowles entered the [[University of Virginia]] in 1928, where his interests included [[T. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[The Waste Land]]'', [[Prokofiev]], [[Duke Ellington]], [[Gregorian chant]], and [[blues]]. He also heard music by [[George Antheil]] and [[Henry Cowell]]. In April 1929, he dropped out without informing his parents, and sailed with a one-way ticket for Paris and no intention of returning&nbsp;– not, he said later, running away, but "running toward something, although I didn't know what at the time."<ref name="nytimes obit"/> Bowles spent the next months working for the ''[[Paris Herald Tribune]]'' and developing a friendship with the Romanian poet [[Tristan Tzara]].<ref name="Seidner">{{cite web|url=http://bombsite.com/issues/4/articles/190|title=Paul Bowles|first=David|last=Seidner|website=Bomb|access-date=June 9, 2016|archive-date=December 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219011255/http://bombsite.com/issues/4/articles/190}}</ref> By July, he returned to New York and worked at Duttons Bookshop in Manhattan, where he began work on an unfinished book of fiction, ''Without Stopping'' (not to be confused with his later autobiography of the same title).

At the insistence of his parents, Bowles returned to studies at the University of Virginia but left after one semester to return to Paris with [[Aaron Copland]], with whom he had been studying composition in New York.<ref name="nytimes obit"/> Copland was a lover<ref>Carr, Virginia Spencer "Paul Bowles, A Life", Scribner, New York 2004, p358, n29</ref> as well as mentor to Bowles, who would later state that he was "other than Jane the most important person in my life":<ref>Carr, Virginia Spencer "Paul Bowles, A Life", Scribner, New York 2004, p171</ref> when their affair concluded, they remained friends for life.

It was during the autumn of 1930 in Paris that Bowles began work on his own first musical composition, the ''Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet'', which he finished the following year. It premiered in New York at the Aeolian Hall on Wigmore Street, December 16, 1931. The entire concert (which also included work by Copland and [[Virgil Thomson]]) was panned by New York critics.<ref>{{citation| title= Paul Bowles Music| editor-first= Claudia |editor-last= Swan| page= 43| publisher= Eos Music Incorporated| year= 1995| isbn= 978-0-9648083-0-0}}</ref> (Bowles's first-known composition was completed earlier in Berlin: an adaptation as piano music of some vocal pieces by [[Kurt Schwitters]].)<ref>"Bowles letter of 9 June 1931 to Edouard Roditi, Berlin," ''In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles''</ref>

===1931–1946: France and New York===
In Paris, Bowles became a part of [[Gertrude Stein]]'s literary and artistic circle. On her advice, he made his first visit to [[Tangier]] with [[Aaron Copland]] in the summer of 1931.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/bowles/music.htm |title= Paul Bowles 1910-1999| website= lib.udel.edu| publisher= Special Collections, University of Delaware| access-date= June 9, 2016}}</ref> They took a house on the mountain above [[Tangier Bay]]. Bowles later made Morocco his full-time home, and it inspired many of his short stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/bowles.htm|title=Author: Bowles, Paul| website=Booksfactory.com| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030401092920/http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/bowles.htm | archive-date= April 1, 2003 |url-status=usurped|access-date= September 14, 2016}}</ref> From Tangier he returned to Berlin, where he met British writers [[Stephen Spender]] and [[Christopher Isherwood]]. (Isherwood was reportedly so taken with him that he named [[Sally Bowles]], a character in a novel, after him.) The next year, Bowles returned to North Africa, traveling through other parts of Morocco, the [[Sahara]], [[Algeria]], and [[Tunisia]].<ref>Paul Bowles, ''Without Stopping: an autobiography'', New York, Echo Press, 1972, chs 7, 8</ref>

In 1937, Bowles returned to New York. Over the next decade, he established a solid reputation as a composer, collaborating with [[Orson Welles]], [[Tennessee Williams]], and others on music for stage productions, as well as orchestral pieces.<ref>Paul Bowles, ''Without Stopping: an autobiography'', New York, Echo Press 1972, chapters 10, 12</ref>

In 1938, he married [[Jane Auer]], an author and playwright. It was an unconventional marriage; their intimate relationships were reportedly with people of their own sex, but the couple maintained close personal ties with each other.<ref name= glbtq>{{cite encyclopedia| last= Holland| first= Patrick |year= 2002| url= http://www.glbtq.com/literature/bowles_p.html | title= Bowles, Paul (1910-1999)| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071016165501/http://glbtq.com/literature/bowles_p.html| archive-date= October 16, 2007|encyclopedia= glbtq.com An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture| access-date= June 12, 2008}}</ref> During this time the couple joined the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party of USA]] but soon left the organization after Bowles was ejected from the party.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/nov/19/news.obituaries|title=Paul Bowles|date=November 19, 1999|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref>

Bowles has frequently been featured in anthologies as a gay writer, although he regarded such categories as both absurd and irrelevant.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.paulbowles.org/talk.html| first= Philip |last= Ramey| title= A Talk With Paul Bowles| website= PaulBowles.org}}</ref> After a brief sojourn in France, the couple were prominent among the literary figures of New York throughout the 1940s. They briefly lived in [[February House]] in late 1939, using burlesque dancer [[Gypsy Rose Lee]]'s room while she was performing in Chicago, but clashed with [[Benjamin Britten]] over use of the piano for composing, and other housemates over their noisy bedroom fantasies.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tippins |first=Sherill |title=February house. |date=2016 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-544-98736-4 |location=Boston |pages=171–5 |oclc=953747323}}</ref> Bowles also worked under [[Virgil Thomson]] as a music critic at the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]''. His [[zarzuela]], ''The Wind Remains'', based on a poem by [[Federico García Lorca]], was performed in 1943 with choreography by [[Merce Cunningham]] and conducted by [[Leonard Bernstein]]. His translation of [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s play ''[[Huis Clos]]'' (''No Exit''), directed by [[John Huston]], won a Drama Critic's Award in 1943.

In 1945, Bowles began writing prose again, beginning with a few short stories including "[[A Distant Episode]]". His wife Jane, he said, was the main influence upon his taking up fiction as an adult, when she published her first novel ''Two Serious Ladies'' (1943).<ref name= "Carr lib.udel.edu" />

===1947–1956: early years in Tangier===
In 1947, Bowles received a contract for a novel from [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]; with the advance, he moved permanently to [[Tangier]]. Jane joined him there the following year. Bowles commented:{{blockquote|1=I was a composer for as long as I've been a writer. I came here because I wanted to write a novel. I had a commission to do it. I was sick of writing music for other people&nbsp;– [[Joseph Losey]], Orson Welles, a whole lot of other people, endless.<ref>{{citation | contribution = Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider | type = interview | first1 = Catherine | last1 = Warnow | first2 = Regina | last2 = Weinreich | orig-date = 1988 | title = Conversations with Paul Bowles | editor-first = Gena Dagel | editor-last = Caponi | year = 1993 | pages = 214–5}}.</ref>}}

Bowles traveled alone into the Algerian [[Sahara]] to work on the novel. He later said, "I wrote in bed in hotels in the desert."<ref>{{citation | title = Paul Bowles in Exile | first = Jay | last = McInerney | magazine = Vanity Fair | date = September 1985}}</ref> He drew inspiration from personal experience, noting years later that, "Whatever one writes is in a sense autobiographical, of course. Not factually so, but poetically so."<ref name="Seidner"/> He titled the novel ''[[The Sheltering Sky]]'', from a song, "Down Among the Sheltering Palms", which he had heard every summer as a child.<ref name = "Autobiography">{{citation | title = Without Stopping: An Autobiography | first = Paul | last = Bowles | page = 275}}.</ref> It was first published by [[John Lehmann Limited]] in England, in September 1949, after Doubleday rejected the manuscript.<ref>{{citation | title = Without Stopping: An Autobiography | first = Paul | last = Bowles | page = 292}}</ref>

Bowles recalled:
{{blockquote|I sent it out to Doubleday and they refused it. They said, "We asked for a novel." They didn't consider it a novel. I had to give back my advance. My agent told me later they called the editor on the carpet for having refused the books&nbsp;– only after they saw that it was selling fast. It only had to do with sales. They didn't bother to read it.<ref>{{citation | contribution = Paul Bowles in Exile | type = interview | first = Jay | last = McInerney | title = Conversations with Paul Bowles | editor-first = Gena Dagel | editor-last = Caponi| orig-date = 1985 | year = 1993 | page = 188}}</ref>}}

A first American edition, by [[New Directions Publishing]], appeared the following month. The plot follows three Americans: Port, his wife Kit, and their friend, Tunner, as they journey through the Algerian desert. The reviewer for ''[[TIME]]'' magazine commented that the ends visited upon the two main characters "seem appropriate but by no means tragic", but that "Bowles scores cleanly with his minor characters: Arab pimps and prostitutes, French officers in garrison towns, [and] a stupidly tiresome pair of tourists—mother & son."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,805263,00.html?internalid=atb100|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070111013131/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,805263,00.html?internalid=atb100|archive-date=January 11, 2007|title=Books: Sex & Sand|date=December 5, 1949|magazine=Time|access-date=June 9, 2016}}</ref> In ''The New York Times'', playwright and critic [[Tennessee Williams]] commented that the book was like a summer thunderstorm, "pulsing with interior flashes of fire".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/bowles-sheltering.html|title=An Allegory of Man and His Sahara| date= December 4, 1949| first= Tennessee |last= Williams| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| access-date= June 9, 2016}}</ref> The book quickly rose to the ''New York Times'' best-seller list, going through three printings in two months.<ref name = "Miller">{{citation | title = Paul Bowles: A Descriptive Bibliography | first = Jeffrey | last = Miller}}</ref>

In 1950, Bowles published his first collection of short stories. Titled ''A Little Stone'' (John Lehmann, London, August 1950), it omitted two of Bowles's most famous short stories, "Pages From Cold Point" and "The Delicate Prey". British critic [[Cyril Connolly]] and writer [[Somerset Maugham]] had advised him that if they were included in the collection, distribution and/or censorship difficulties might ensue.<ref name = "Miller" />{{rp |22}} The American edition by [[Random House]], ''The Delicate Prey and Other Stories'' (November 1950), did include these two stories.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In an interview 30 years later, Bowles responded to an observation that almost all of the characters in "The Delicate Prey" were victimized by either physical or psychological violence.<ref>{{citation | title = The Paris Review Interviews | contribution = Paul Bowles | page = 190}}</ref> He said:
{{blockquote|Yes, I suppose. The violence served a therapeutic purpose. It's unsettling to think that at any moment life can flare up into senseless violence. But it can and does, and people need to be ready for it. What you make for others is first of all what you make for yourself. If I'm persuaded that our life is predicated upon violence, that the entire structure of what we call civilization, the scaffolding that we've built up over the millennia, can collapse at any moment, then whatever I write is going to be affected by that assumption. The process of life presupposes violence, in the plant world the same as the animal world. But among the animals only man can conceptualize violence. Only man can enjoy the idea of destruction.<ref>{{cite periodical |last1=Bailey |first1=Jeffrey |title=Paul Bowles, The Art of Fiction No. 67 |url=https://theparisreview.org/interviews/3208/the-art-of-fiction-no-67-paul-bowles |periodical=The Paris Review |issue=81 |date=Fall 1981}}</ref>}}

He set his second novel, ''Let It Come Down'' (John Lehmann, London, February 1952), in North Africa, specifically Tangier. It explored the disintegration of an American (Nelson Dyar) who was unprepared for the encounter with an alien culture. The first American edition by Random House was published later that same month.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

Bowles set his third novel, ''The Spider's House'' (Random House, New York, November 1955), in [[Fez, Morocco|Fez]], immediately prior to Morocco's gaining independence and sovereignty in 1956. In it, he charted the relationships among three immigrants and a young Moroccan: John Stenham, Alain Moss, Lee Veyron, and Amar.<ref>{{citation | title = The Spider's House | section = dustwrapper info | edition = first | publisher = Random House | place = New York, United States | date = November 1955}}</ref> Reviewers noted that the novel marked a departure from Bowles's earlier fiction in that it introduced a contemporary political theme, the conflict between [[Moroccan nationalism]] and French colonialism. The UK edition (Macdonald) was published in January 1957.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

While Bowles was concentrating on his career as a writer, he composed incidental music for nine plays presented by the [[American School of Tangier]]. The Bowles couple became fixtures of the American and European immigrant scene in Tangier. Visitors included [[Truman Capote]], [[Joseph Glasco]], Tennessee Williams and [[Gore Vidal]]. [[William S. Burroughs]], and the [[Beat Generation|Beat]] writers [[Allen Ginsberg]] and [[Gregory Corso]] followed in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. In 1951, Bowles was introduced to the [[Master Musicians of Jajouka]], having first heard the musicians when he and [[Brion Gysin]] attended a festival, or ''moussem'', at [[Sidi Kacem]]. Bowles described his continued association with the Master Musicians of Jajouka and their hereditary leader Bachir Attar in his book, ''Days: A Tangier Diary''.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In 1952, Bowles bought the tiny island of [[Taprobane Island (Weligama)|Taprobane]], off the coast of [[Ceylon]]. There, he wrote much of his novel ''The Spider's House'' and returned to Tangier in the warmer months. He stayed in Sri Lanka most winters.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

===1957–1973: Moroccan music and translation===
In 1957, Jane Bowles had a mild stroke, which marked the beginning of a prolonged decline in her health. Her condition preoccupied Paul Bowles until Jane's death in 1973.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

During the late 1950s, Morocco achieved independence. With a grant from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] and sponsorship from the [[US Library of Congress]], Bowles spent the months of August to September 1959 traveling throughout Morocco with Christopher Wanklyn and Mohammed Larbi, recording [[Music of Morocco|traditional Moroccan music]].<ref>"The Rif to Music," ''Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue'' (Random House, 1963), pp. 97–141</ref> From 1959 to 1961, Bowles recorded a wide variety of music from the different ethnic groups in Morocco, including the [[Sephardic Jewish]] communities of [[Meknes]] and [[Essaouira]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dafina.net/forums/read.php?52,188346,page=3|title=Meknes, yahsra.. sa vie juive, son mellah| website= Dafina.net| access-date= June 9, 2016}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=July 2024|reason=source is a forum}}

During these years, Bowles also worked at translating Moroccan authors and story-tellers, including [[Mohamed Choukri]], [[Ahmed Yacoubi]], [[Larbi Layachi]] (under the pseudonym Driss ben Hamed Charhadi), and [[Mohamed Mrabet]].

In the autumn of 1968, invited by friend Oliver Evans, Bowles was a visiting scholar for one semester at the English Department of the San Fernando Valley State College, (now [[California State University, Northridge]]). He taught "Advanced Narrative Writing and the Modern European Novel."<ref>''Without Stopping'' (Putnam, 1972): p. 368</ref>

In 1970, Bowles and [[Daniel Halpern]] founded the literary magazine ''[[Antaeus (magazine)|Antaeus]],'' based in Tangier. It featured many new, as well as established authors. Bowles's work was also represented, including his story "Afternoon with Antaeus."

===1974–1995: later years===
After his wife's death, on May 4, 1973, in [[Málaga]], Spain, Bowles continued to live in Tangier. He wrote regularly and received many visitors to his modest apartment.

In the summers of 1980 and 1982, Bowles conducted writing workshops in Morocco, at the American School of Tangier (under the auspices of the [[School of Visual Arts]] in New York). These were considered successful. Among several students who have become successful authors are [[Rodrigo Rey Rosa]],<ref>[http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/winter_07/Gray.pdf Jeffrey Gray, "Placing the Placeless: A Conversation with Rodrigo Rey Rosa"], North Carolina State University</ref> the 2004 Winner of the [[Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature]], and [[Mark Terrill]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pinstripefedora.com/issue3.html |title=Issue Number 3| website= PinstripeFedora.com |access-date=August 19, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080827230152/http://pinstripefedora.com/issue3.html |archive-date=August 27, 2008 }}</ref> Bowles designated Rey Rosa as the literary heir of his and Jane Bowles's estates.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.paulbowles.org/photoslit1.html|title= Tennessee Williams. Gavin Young and Rodrigo Rey Rosa |website= paulbowles.org| access-date= June 9, 2016}}</ref>

In 1982, Bowles published ''Points in Time'', subtitled ''Tales From Morocco'', a collection of stories. Divided into eleven parts, the work consists of untitled story fragments, anecdotes, and travel narratives.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yzVV1Hl1NvAC&q=Points+in+Time+by+paul+bowle&pg=PA26|title=Encyclopedia of Beat Literature|isbn=978-1-4381-0908-4|access-date=April 8, 2015|last1=Hemmer|first1=Kurt|date=May 12, 2010|publisher=Infobase }}</ref> These stories are not included in either ''The Stories of Paul Bowles'' ([[Ecco Press]]) or ''Collected Stories and Later Writings'' ([[The Library of America]]).<ref>{{cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-e73_OaS0uQC&q=Points+in+Time+by+paul+bowle&pg=PA195|title=Conversations with Paul Bowles|isbn=978-0-87805-650-7|access-date=April 6, 2015|last1=Bowles|first1=Paul|last2=Caponi-Tabery|first2=Gena|year=1993|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi }}</ref>

Also in 1982, Paul Bowles worked with [[Karren Alenier]] on several of the Stein poems associated with her opera libretto ''Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biographies |url=https://alenier.tripod.com/bios.htm |access-date=January 26, 2024 |website=alenier.tripod.com}}</ref>

In 1985, Bowles published his translation of [[Jorge Luis Borges]]'s short story "[[The Circular Ruins]]". It was collected in a book of 16 stories, all translated by Bowles, called ''She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her''. This Borges story had previously been published in translations by the three main Borges translators: Anthony Kerrigan, Anthony Bonner, and James E. Irby.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In 1988, when Bowles was asked in an interview about his social life, he replied, "I don't know what a social life is&nbsp;... My social life is restricted to those who serve me and give me meals, and those who want to interview me." When asked in the same interview how he would summarize his achievement, he said, "I've written some books and some music. That's what I've achieved."<ref>"Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider," Interview with Catherine Warnow and Regina Weinreich/ 1988, in ''Conversations with Paul Bowles'', ed. Gena Dagel Caponi, 1993, pg. 217</ref>

Bowles had a cameo appearance at the beginning and end of the film version of [[The Sheltering Sky (film)|''The Sheltering Sky'']] (1990), directed by [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]. Bowles's music was overlooked and mostly forgotten for more than a generation, but in the 1990s, a new generation of American musicians and singers became interested in his work again. Art song enthusiasts savor what are described as "charming, witty pieces."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsongupdate.org/Reviews/ASoW/Art%20Song%20of%20Williamsburg.htm| title= Art Song of Williamsburg| first= John| last= Campbell| website= Artsong Update| access-date= June 9, 2016}}</ref>
In 1994, Bowles was visited and interviewed by writer [[Paul Theroux]], who featured him in his last chapter of his travel book, ''[[The Pillars of Hercules (book)|The Pillars of Hercules]]''.

===1995–1999: final years===
In 1995, Bowles made his final return to New York, invited to a "Paul Bowles Festival" at [[Lincoln Center]] celebrating his music. The music was performed by [[Jonathan Sheffer]] leading the [[Eos Orchestra]].<ref name="FanFaire_a">{{cite web|author=FanFaire LLC |url=http://www.fanfaire.com/copland/sheffer-eos.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122203421/http://www.fanfaire.com/copland/sheffer-eos.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=January 22, 2013 |title=Jonathan Sheffer & the Eos Orchestra play the music of Aaron Copland in the final celebration of the great American composer's 100th birthday anniversary |publisher=Fanfaire.com |year=2001 |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref> A related symposium on Bowles's work and interview were held at [[The New School for Social Research]]. A Canadian documentary on his life, ''[[Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles]]'' won Best Documentary at the 27th Annual [[International Emmy Awards]] in New York City.

Visitors in 1998 reported that Bowles's wit and intellect endured. He continued to welcome visitors to his apartment in Tangier but, on the advice of doctors and friends, limited interviews. One of the last was an interview with Stephen Morison Jr., a friend teaching at the American School of Tangier. It was featured in the July/August 1999 issue of ''[[Poets & Writers]]'' magazine. On June 6, 1999, Irene Herrmann, the executrix of the Paul Bowles Music Estate, interviewed him to focus on his musical career; this was published in September 2003.<ref>[http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9332.php ''The Last Interview with Paul Bowles''], University of California Press</ref>

Bowles died of heart failure on November 18, 1999,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-05 |title=Paul Bowles - Tangier Guide |url=https://tangier.guide/paul-bowles/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=tangier.guide |language=en-US}}</ref> at the Italian Hospital in Tangier, aged 88. He had been ill for some time with respiratory problems. His ashes were buried in [[Lakemont, New York]], next to the graves of his parents and grandparents.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}

==Bowles and Tangier==

Paul Bowles lived for 52 years in Tangier, from 1947 until his death, and became strongly identified with the city as its most prominent American expatriate.<ref name="nytimes obit" /> He first visited the city in 1931 with Aaron Copland. At that time, Tangier was an international zone administered by a consortium of foreign powers, including the United States, France, and Spain.<ref name="stuart">Stuart, Graham H. ''The International City of Tangier''. 2nd ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1955.</ref> Its population was ethnically diverse, comprising Berber, Arab, Spanish, and French inhabitants, among others, and the city functioned as a major Mediterranean trading port.<ref name="edwards">Edwards, Brian T. "The Moroccan Paul Bowles." ''Michigan Quarterly Review'', vol. 50, no. 2, Spring 2011, pp. 191–209.</ref>

When Bowles returned to settle permanently in 1947, the international zone was still in effect. In 1955, civil unrest broke out as Moroccan nationalists agitated against French colonial rule. Morocco gain independence in 1956, at which point Tangier's international zone status was dissolved and the city was incorporated into the Kingdom of Morocco.<ref name="stuart" />

==Music==

===Introduction===
Paul Bowles first studied music with [[Aaron Copland]]. In the fall of 1931, following an introduction from Copland, he entered the [[studio]] of [[Virgil Thomson]].<ref name="VThomson">[[Virgil Thomson|Thomson, Virgil]]. ''Virgil Thomson''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966, pp. 206–207.</ref>

Bowles had thought of himself first as a poet, having published some verse in his brief time at the [[University of Virginia]] in the pages of ''[[Transition (literary journal)|transition]]''. Unfortunately, the quality of his poetry eluded any of the intellectuals he would later encounter in Paris. Among them was [[Gertrude Stein]], from whom he received the sobriquet, "the manufactured savage," and who begged him to give up writing poetry.<ref name="VThomson" /><ref name="RBriatte">Briatte, Robert. ''An American in Paris'': "Portrait of Paul Bowles". Liner Notes from Koch International (3-1574-2), 1995, pp. 5–6.</ref>

However, his music of the time, demonstrated by a propensity for [[Ravel]]-like piano [[Musical improvisation|improvisations]], charmed both Copland and Thomson, alike.<ref name="VThomson" /><ref name="ACopland">[[Copland, Aaron]]. ''Copland On Music''. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1960, pp. 161–162.</ref> In his book, ''Copland On Music'' (Doubleday & Company, New York, 1960), Copland remarked:

{{blockquote|There are those who refuse to see in Bowles anything more than a dilettante. Bowles himself persists in adopting a militantly non-professional air in relation to all music, including his own.

It is music that comes from a fresh personality, music full of charm and melodic invention, at times surprisingly well made in an instinctive and non-academic fashion.

Personally I much prefer an "amateur" like Bowles to your "well-trained" conservatory product.<ref name="ACopland" />}}

For Copland the allure of Bowles's music would never diminish. In later years he was recorded as having said, "Paul Bowles' music is always fresh; I've never known him to write a dull piece."<ref name="BLerner">Lerner, Bennett. ''[https://www.etcetera-records.com/album/273/american-piano-music American Piano Music, Volume I]''. Liner Notes from Etcetera Records (KTC 10109), 1984, pp. 2–3.</ref>

However, the precocity of Bowles's early musical efforts would later belie a lack of professional training and discipline. Copland had tried in New York to teach him [[harmony]], but had found him to be a stubborn pupil. In Paris Bowles approached [[Nadia Boulanger]] for lessons, and Thomson recommended him to [[Paul Dukas]]. In the end, he would work with neither.<ref name="VThomson" />

===Development===
Apart from irregular consultation with [[Vittorio Rieti]], Bowles never received any formal instruction in music, despite the best efforts of Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson to persuade him otherwise. However, the self-taught composer, with assistance from Thomson, found success in New York as a producer of incidental music for the theatre. He collaborated with the likes of [[George Balanchine]], [[Joseph Losey]], [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Elia Kazan]], [[Arthur Koestler]], [[José Ferrer]], [[Salvador Dalí]], [[Orson Welles]], [[William Saroyan]] and [[Tennessee Williams]].<ref name="VThomson" /><ref name="BLerner" /><ref name="RBriatte" />

During the [[Second World War]] he turned his hand to writing as a [[Review#Music reviews|reviewer]] for the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'', where Thomson then served as [[Music journalism|music critic]]. Bowles was well-suited to the work, according to Thomson, "because he wrote clearly and because he had the gift of judgment."<ref name="VThomson" />

Following Virgil Thomson's retirement from his critic's post in 1954, reminiscing on his wish Paul Bowles had taken over the position, Bowles remarked, "I don't think I could have handled it, any more than I could have followed a career in composition. I lacked the musical training that [Virgil] and Aaron had."<ref name="VThomson" />

===A new direction===
After the war, eventually settling in [[Tangier]], Morocco, Bowles continued his musical and literary pursuits, gradually letting go of the former and becoming what Virgil Thomson described as, "a novelist and story writer of international repute."<ref name="VThomson" />

Paul Bowles referred to Tangier as "a place where it is still hard to find a piano in tune."<ref name="RBriatte" /> Regarding his establishment as an author in Morocco, Bowles said:

{{blockquote|Little by little I was aware of there being atmospheres which I could only portray by writing about them. I was unable to express my emotions in their entirety through music. My music was joyful as I was myself. The more nocturnal side to my personality, I managed to express through language.<ref name="RBriatte" />}}

With the success of the book, ''[[The Sheltering Sky]]'', Bowles struck his first blow for independence. In time this break from the composition of music would see Bowles's earlier exploits overshadowed completely by his acclaim as a writer of prose.<ref name="RBriatte" />

===Recapitulation===
Only in the decade before his death was there a renewed interest in his musical output from the 1930s and '40s. This movement may have culminated in May 1994, at the [[Théâtre du Rond-Point]] in Paris, with the presentation of a live concert performance, and at which the then 83-year-old Paul Bowles was in attendance. The program included a number of Bowles's original songs and pieces for piano, plus musical tributes and portraits of the composer by Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, and [[Phillip Ramey]].<ref name="YPetitdeVoize">Petit de Voize, Yves. ''An American in Paris''. Liner Notes from Koch International (3-1574-2), 1995, pp. 7–8.</ref> At least as regards the past neglect of his own catalogue, this ongoing revival may serve as proof of Bowles's own words: "Music only exists when it is played."<ref name="RBriatte" />

Renewal of respect for Paul Bowles's music has led to [[#Selected discography of musical compositions and readings|several commercial recording projects]]. In 2016 the Invencia Piano Duo ([[Andrey Kasparov]] and [[Oksana Lutsyshyn]]), in collaboration with [[Naxos Records]] and its American Classics division, released two CDs of Bowles's complete piano works.<ref name="Naxos_a">{{cite web|author=[[Naxos Records]] |url=http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559786 |title=Bowles, P.: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 1 (Invencia Piano Duo) |publisher=Naxos.com |date=April 2016 |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Naxos_b">{{cite web|author=Naxos Records |url=http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559787 |title=Bowles, P.: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 2 (Invencia Piano Duo) |publisher=Naxos.com |date=June 2016 |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Ritmo_a">{{cite web|author=Marín, Jerónimo |url=https://www.naxos.com/reviews/reviewslist.asp?catalogueid=8.559787&languageid=ES |title=Bowles, Paul: Piano Works (Complete), Vols. 1 & 2 (Invencia Piano Duo) |publisher=Ritmo |language=es |date=July 2017 |access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref>

Volume one opens with pieces inspired by Latin American themes, evocative of the composer's interest in the culture and his fluency in the Spanish language.<ref name="PBowles_a">Bowles, Paul. "On Mexico's Popular Music." ''[[Modern Music (magazine)|Modern Music]]'' 18.4 (1941): 225-230.</ref><ref name="BLerner" /><ref name="Invencia_a">{{cite web|author=Invencia Piano Duo |url=https://invenciaduo.wordpress.com/new-naxos-release-paul-bowles-complete-piano-works-volume-1/ |title=New Naxos Release: Paul Bowles, Complete Piano Works (Volume 1) |publisher=Invenciaduo.wordpress.com |date=April 1, 2016 |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Gramophone_a">Distler, Jed. [https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/52137/page/3 "Sounds of America, Bowles."] ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'' July 2016: 1.</ref><ref name="Azúa_a">de Azúa, Félix. "Praise of lightness" ''[[:es:Scherzo (revista)|Scherzo]]'' Mar. 2017.</ref> The second of the two volumes closes with arrangements of ''[[Blue Mountain Ballads]]'' (1946), set for piano duet by Dr. Andrey Kasparov,<ref name="Invencia_b">{{cite web|author=Invencia Piano Duo |url=https://invenciaduo.wordpress.com/arrangements/ |title=Arrangements by Andrey Kasparov |date=November 5, 2016 |publisher=Invenciaduo.wordpress.com |access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref> and three miscellaneous pieces, set for two pianos by the American piano duo of [[Gold and Fizdale|Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale]]. The latter three arrangements were uncovered in the Gold and Fizdale Collection, held in the Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections, [[Lila Acheson Wallace]] Library, [[The Juilliard School]].<ref name="Invencia_c">{{cite web|author=Invencia Piano Duo |url=https://invenciaduo.wordpress.com/new-naxos-release-paul-bowles-complete-piano-works-volume-2/ |title=New Naxos Release: Paul Bowles, Complete Piano Works (Volume 2) |publisher=Invenciaduo.wordpress.com |date=June 1, 2016 |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Juilliard_a">{{cite web|author=The Juilliard School |url=https://www.juilliard.edu/school/library-and-archives/special-collections |title=Juilliard Manuscript Collection: Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections, Gold and Fizdale Collection |publisher=Juilliard.edu |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref> Dr. Kasparov reconstructed the original manuscripts which permitted these duets to be recorded for the very first time.<ref name="Invencia_c" />

===Recording of Moroccan music===
Paul Bowles was a pioneer in the field of North African [[ethnomusicology]], making field recordings from 1959 to 1961 of traditional Moroccan music for the [[US Library of Congress]].<ref>The US Library of Congress Recordings were inaugurated to act as a "repository for ethnographic documentation appealing to folklorists and cultural documentarians working in this country and in foreign lands as well." [https://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/pdf/afcnews-spring-2003.pdf ''Folklife Center News''], Spring 2003, page 5</ref> In five months, he managed to document 250 examples, covering some of the most significant Moroccan music genres.<ref>[https://norient.com/index.php/gilles-aubry/listen-thats-us?topic=96 "Listen That's Us!"] by Gilles Aubry, 2023.</ref> The collection includes dance music, secular music, music for [[Ramadan]] and other celebrations, and music for [[animistic]] rituals. Bowles realised that modern culture would inevitably change and influence the practice of traditional music, and he wanted to preserve some of it.

Bowles commented on the political aspects of the practice of traditional music:

{{blockquote|Instrumentalists and singers have come into being in lieu of chroniclers and poets, and even during the most recent chapter in the country's evolution&nbsp;– the war for independence and the setting up of the present regime&nbsp;– each phase of the struggle has been celebrated in song.<ref>Page 1 of a 9-page booklet contained within the double LP ''Music of Morocco'', AFS L63-64</ref>}}

The total collection of this recorded music is known as ''The Paul Bowles Collection''; it is archived in the US Library of Congress, Reference No. 72-750123. The Archival Manuscript Material (Collection) contains 97 x 2-track 7" reel-to-reel tapes, containing approximately sixty hours of traditional folk, art and popular music, one box of manuscripts, 18 photographs, and a map, along with the 2-LP recording called ''Music of Morocco'' (AFS L63-64).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/paulbowles.html|title=The Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collections (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)|website=Loc.gov|access-date=June 9, 2016}}</ref>

==Translating other authors==
In the 1960s Bowles began translating and collecting stories from the oral tradition of native Moroccan storytellers. His most noteworthy collaborators included [[Mohammed Mrabet]], [[Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi]] ([[Larbi Layachi]]), [[Mohamed Choukri]], [[Abdeslam Boulaich]], and [[Ahmed Yacoubi]].

He also translated writers whose original work was written in Spanish, Portuguese and French: [[Rodrigo Rey Rosa]], [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Isabelle Eberhardt]], [[Roger Frison-Roche]], [[André Pieyre de Mandiargues]], [[Ramón Gómez de la Serna]], [[Giorgio de Chirico]], [[Si Lakhdar]], [[E. Laoust]], [[Ramon Beteta]], [[Gabino Chan]], [[Bertrand Flornoy]], [[Jean Ferry]], [[Denise Moran]], [[Paul Colinet]], [[Paul Magritte]], [[Popul Buj]], [[Francis Ponge]], [[Bluet d'Acheres]] and [[Ramón Sender (composer)|Ramón Sender]].

==Achievement and legacy==
Paul Bowles is considered one of the artists to have shaped [[20th-century literature]] and [[20th-century music|music]].<ref>[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/biography.html#B Biographies: Paul Bowles], [[University of California, Berkeley Library]]</ref> In his "Introduction" to Bowles's ''Collected Stories'' (1979) [[Gore Vidal]] ranked the short stories as "among the best ever written by an American", writing: "the floor to this ramshackle civilization that we have built cannot bear much longer our weight. It was Bowles's genius to suggest the horrors which lie beneath that floor, as fragile, in its way, as the sky that shelters us from a devouring vastness".<ref>Gore Vidal, Introduction to ''The Collected Stories,'' 1979, reprinted 1997.</ref>

Critics have described his music, in contrast, "as full of light as the fiction [is] of dark&nbsp;... almost as if the composer were a totally different person from the writer."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOMu22usjh4C|title=An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles|first=Christopher|last=Sawyer-Lauçanno|date=February 1, 1999|publisher=[[Grove Press]]|isbn=978-0-8021-3600-8|access-date=June 9, 2016|via=Google Books}}</ref> During the early 1930s, Bowles studied composition (intermittently) with [[Aaron Copland]]; his music from this period "is reminiscent of [[Satie]] and [[Poulenc]]." Returning to New York in the mid-30s, Bowles became one of the preeminent composers of American theater music, producing works for [[William Saroyan]], [[Tennessee Williams]], and others,<ref>[https://library.udel.edu/special/findaids/view?docId=ead/mss0164.xml Guide to the Paul Bowles collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905152201/https://library.udel.edu/special/findaids/view?docId=ead/mss0164.xml |date=September 5, 2019 }}, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware. Retrieved May 17, 2020.</ref> "show[ing] exceptional skill and imagination in capturing the mood, emotion, and ambience of each play to which he was assigned." Bowles said that such incidental music allowed him to present "climaxless music, hypnotic music in one of the exact senses of the word, in that it makes its effect without the spectator being made aware of it." At the same time he continued to write concert music, assimilating some of the melodic, rhythmic, and other stylistic elements of [[African music|African]], [[Music of Mexico|Mexican]], and [[Central American music]].<ref>"Paul Bowles", ''Biographical Dictionary of American Composers''.</ref>

In 1991, Bowles was awarded the annual [[Rea Award for the Short Story]]. The jury gave the following citation: "Paul Bowles is a storyteller of the utmost purity and integrity. He writes of a world before God became man; a world in which men and women in extremis are seen as components in a larger, more elemental drama. His prose is crystalline and his voice unique. Among living American masters of the short story, Paul Bowles is sui generis."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://reaaward.org/1991-winnerpaul-bowles/ |title=The Rea Award for the Short Story - 1991 Winner - Paul Bowles|website=[[The Rea Award for the Short Story]] |date=May 9, 2017 |publisher=Dungannon Foundation |access-date=September 28, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816023555/https://reaaward.org/1991-winnerpaul-bowles/ | archive-date=August 16, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The historic building of the [[American Legation, Tangier|American Legation in Tangier]] includes an entire wing devoted to Paul Bowles. In 2010, they received a donation of furniture, photographs and documents compiled by [[Gloria Kirby]], a permanent resident of Tanger and friend of Bowles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paulbowles.org/paulbowlesmuseum.html|title=PAUL BOWLES WING: Tangier American Legation (TALIM)|website=paulbowles.org|access-date=March 27, 2019}}</ref>

The [[Library of America]] published an edition of Bowles's works in 2002.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

==Works==
In addition to his chamber and stage compositions, Bowles published fourteen short story collections, several novels, three volumes of poetry, numerous translations, numerous travel articles, and an autobiography.

===Music===
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{{Hanging indent |text=1931&nbsp;– ''Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1936&nbsp;– ''Horse Eats Hat'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1936&nbsp;– ''Who Fights This Battle'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1937&nbsp;– ''Doctor Faustus'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1937&nbsp;– ''Yankee Clipper'', ballet}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1938&nbsp;– ''Music for a Farce''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1938&nbsp;– ''[[Too Much Johnson (1938 film)|Too Much Johnson]]'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1938&nbsp;– ''Huapango&nbsp;– Cafe Sin Nombre&nbsp;– Huapango-El Sol'', [[Latin American]] folk}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1939&nbsp;– ''Denmark Vesey'', opera}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1939&nbsp;– ''My Heart's in the Highlands'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1940&nbsp;– ''Loves Old Sweet Song'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1940&nbsp;– ''Twelfth Night'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1941&nbsp;– ''A Little Closer, Please'', words by William Saroyan}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1941&nbsp;– ''Liberty Jones'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1941&nbsp;– ''Watch on the Rhine'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1941&nbsp;– ''Love Like Wildfire'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1941&nbsp;– ''Pastorela'', ballet}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1942&nbsp;– ''In Another Five Years Or So'', opera}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1942&nbsp;– ''The Wind Remains'', [[zarzuela]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1943&nbsp;– ''South Pacific'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1943&nbsp;– ''Sonata for Flute and Piano'' and ''Two Mexican Dances''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1943&nbsp;– '''Tis Pity She's a Whore'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1944&nbsp;– ''The Glass Menagerie'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1944&nbsp;– ''Jacobowsky and the Colonel'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1944&nbsp;– ''Sentimental Colloquy'', ballet}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1945&nbsp;– ''Ondine'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1945&nbsp;– ''Three'', words by [[Tennessee Williams]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1945&nbsp;– ''Three Pastoral Songs''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1946&nbsp;– ''Night Without Sleep'', words by [[Charles Henri Ford]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1946&nbsp;– ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1946&nbsp;– ''The Dancer'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1946&nbsp;– ''Land's End'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1946&nbsp;– ''On Whitman Avenue'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1946&nbsp;– ''Twilight Bar'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1946&nbsp;– ''[[Blue Mountain Ballads]]'' ("Heavenly Grass", "Lonesome Man", "Cabin", "Sugar in the Cane"), words by Tennessee Williams}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1946&nbsp;– ''Concerto for Two Pianos''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1947&nbsp;– ''Sonata for Two Pianos''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1947&nbsp;– ''Pastorela: First Suite'', a ballet/opera in one act}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1947&nbsp;– ''The Glass Menagerie'', words by Tennessee Williams, two songs by Bowles}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1948&nbsp;– ''Concerto for Two Pianos, Winds and Percussion''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1948&nbsp;– ''Summer and Smoke'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1949&nbsp;– ''Night Waltz''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1953&nbsp;– ''A Picnic Cantata''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1953&nbsp;– ''In the Summer House'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1955&nbsp;– ''Yerma'', opera}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1958&nbsp;– ''[[Edwin Booth]]'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1959&nbsp;– ''Sweet Bird of Youth'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1960&nbsp;– ''Gothic Suite'' ("Testa dell'Efebo", "San Sebastiano di Sodoma", "The Goths", "Faint as Leaf Shadow", "Death is High") words by Tennessee Williams; music composed 1960, published 1984}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1962&nbsp;– ''The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1966&nbsp;– [[Oedipus Rex|''Oedipus'']], play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1967&nbsp;– ''The Garden'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1969&nbsp;– ''[[The Bacchae]]'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1976&nbsp;– ''Cross Country''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1978&nbsp;– ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1978&nbsp;– [[Caligula (play)|''Caligula'']], play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1984&nbsp;– ''Camp Cataract'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1984&nbsp;– ''A Quarreling Pair'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1992&nbsp;– ''[[Hippolytus (play)|Hippolytos]]'', play}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1992&nbsp;– ''[[Black Star at the Point of Darkness]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1993&nbsp;– ''[[Salome (play)|Salome]]'', play}}
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===Fiction===

====Novels====
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{{Hanging indent |text= 1949&nbsp;– ''[[The Sheltering Sky]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1952&nbsp;– ''[[Let It Come Down (novel)|Let It Come Down]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1955&nbsp;– ''[[The Spider's House (novel)|The Spider's House]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1966&nbsp;– ''[[Up Above the World]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1991&nbsp;– ''[[Too Far from Home]]'' (novella)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1992&nbsp;– ''Too Far from Home'' (with Miquel Barceló; 28 watercolors)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1994&nbsp;– ''[[Too Far from Home]]'' (with Marguerite McBey)}}
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====Short fiction====
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* {{Hanging indent |text= (December 1945) "The Scorpion"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (September 1946) "[[The Echo (short story)|The Echo"]]}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (October 1946) "By the Water"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Jan-Feb 1947) "[[A Distant Episode]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (June 1947) "Under the Sky"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (October 1947) "Call at Corazón"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (January 1948) "[[You Are Not I (short story)|You Are Not I]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (September 1948) "[[At Paso Rojo]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (February 1949) "Pastor Dowe at Tacaté"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Summer 1949) "[[The Delicate Prey]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Autumn 1949) "[[Pages from Cold Point]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1950) "[[Doña Faustina]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1950) "The Circular Valley," "The Fourth Day Out from Santa Cruz," "A Thousand Days to Mokhtar," & "[[Tea on the Mountain]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (April 1950) "How Many Midnights"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (July 1950) "Señor Ong and Señor Ha"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (March 1951) "[[A Gift for Kinza]]" (aka "The Successor")}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (April 1954) "If I Should Open My Mouth"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1956) "[[The Hours After Noon]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (July 1957) "[[The Frozen Fields]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (May 1958) "[[Tapiama]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1960) "He of the Assembly"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (October 1960) "Merkala Beach" (aka "The Story of Lachen and Idir")}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (March 1961) "A Friend of the World"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Winter 1962) "[[The Hyena (short story)|The Hyena]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Autumn/Winter 1964) "[[The Garden (short story)|The Garden]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Summer 1970) "Afternoon with Antaeus"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Spring/Summer 1974) "Mejdoub"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Fall 1974) "The Fqih"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1975) "The Waters of Izli"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (January 1976) "Things Gone and Things Still Here"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Spring/Summer 1976) "Istikhara, Anaya, Medagan and the Medaganat"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (January 1977) "[[Allal]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (June 1977) "Reminders of Bouselham"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Fall 1978) "The Eye"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Summer 1979) "Here to Learn"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Winter 1979) "Midnight Mass"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Spring 1980) "The Dismissal"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Summer 1980) "Madame and Ahmed" & "Kitty"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (July 1980) "Bouayad and the Money"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Winter 1980) "The Husband"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Winter 1980-81) "At the Krungthep Plaza"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1981) "In the Red Room" & "Midnight Mass"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Spring 1981) "The Little House," "Rumor and a Ladder," & "Tangier 1975"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Autumn 1983) "Massachusetts 1932"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1985) "The Empty Amulet"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Spring 1985) "Hugh Harper"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Fall 1985) "Julian Vreden"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (January–February 1987) "Unwelcome Words"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (Spring 1987) "In Absentia"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1988) "An Inopportune Visit," "New York 1965," & "Dinner at Sir Nigel's"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1992) "Too Far from Home"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= "[[You Have Left Your Lotus Pods on the Bus]]"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1995) "The Time of Friendship"}}
* {{Hanging indent |text= (1998) "The Wind at Beni Midar"}}
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====Short stories (collections)====
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{{Hanging indent |text= 1950&nbsp;– ''A Little Stone''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1950&nbsp;– ''[[The Delicate Prey and Other Stories]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1959&nbsp;– ''The Hours After Noon''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1962&nbsp;– ''[[A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1967&nbsp;– ''[[The Time of Friendship]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1967&nbsp;– ''The Garden, theatre play''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1968&nbsp;– ''Pages from Cold Point and Other Stories''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1975&nbsp;– ''Three Tales''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1977&nbsp;– ''[[Things Gone and Things Still Here]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1979&nbsp;– ''Collected Stories, 1939–1976''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1981&nbsp;– ''In the Red Room'', published by [[Sylvester & Orphanos]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1981&nbsp;– ''[[Midnight Mass (short story collection)|Midnight Mass]]''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1982&nbsp;– ''Points in Time''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1988&nbsp;– ''Unwelcome Words: Seven Stories''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1988&nbsp;– ''A Distant Episode: Selected Stories''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1988&nbsp;– ''Call at Corazon''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1989&nbsp;– ''A Thousand Days for Mokhtar''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1995&nbsp;– ''The Time of Friendship'' Paul Bowles & Vittorio Santoro}}
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====Poetry====
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{{Hanging indent |text= 1933&nbsp;– ''Two Poems''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1968&nbsp;– ''Scenes''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1972&nbsp;– ''The Thicket of Spring''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1981&nbsp;– ''Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926–1977''}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1997&nbsp;– ''No Eye Looked Out from Any Crevice''}}
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===Translations===
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{{Hanging indent |text= 1946&nbsp;– ''No Exit'' by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1952&nbsp;– ''The Lost Trail of the Sahara'' by [[Roger Frison-Roche]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1964&nbsp;– ''A Life Full Of Holes'' by [[Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi]] ([[Larbi Layachi]])}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1967&nbsp;– ''Love with a Few Hairs'' by [[Mohammed Mrabet]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1969&nbsp;– ''The Lemon'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1969&nbsp;– ''M'Hashish'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1973&nbsp;– ''For Bread Alone'' by [[Mohamed Choukri]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1973&nbsp;– ''Jean Genet in Tangier'' by Mohamed Choukri}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1974&nbsp;– ''The Boy Who Set the Fire'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1975&nbsp;– ''Hadidan Aharam'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1975&nbsp;– ''The Oblivion Seekers'' by [[Isabelle Eberhardt]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1976&nbsp;– ''Look & Move On'' by [[Mohammed Mrabet]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1976&nbsp;– ''Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1977&nbsp;– ''The Big Mirror'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1979&nbsp;– ''Tennessee Williams in Tangier'' by Mohamed Choukri}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1979&nbsp;– ''Five Eyes'' by [[Abdeslam Boulaich]], "Sheheriar and Sheherazade" by Mohamed Choukri, "The Half Brothers" by Larbi Layachi, "The Lute" by Mohammed Mrabet, and "The Night Before Thinking" by [[Ahmed Yacoubi]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1980&nbsp;– ''The Beach Café & The Voice'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1982&nbsp;– ''The Path Doubles Back'' by Rodrigo Rey Rosa}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1983&nbsp;– ''The Chest'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1983&nbsp;– [[Allal]] by Pociao}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1984&nbsp;– ''The River Bed'' by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, (a short story)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1985&nbsp;– ''She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her'' — 16 authors' short stories from various languages}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1986&nbsp;– ''Marriage With Papers'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1986&nbsp;– ''Paul Bowles: Translations from the Moghrebi'' by various authors}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1988&nbsp;– ''The Beggar's Knife'' by [[Rodrigo Rey Rosa]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1989&nbsp;– ''Dust on Her Tongue'' by Rodrigo Rey Rosa}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1990&nbsp;– ''The Storyteller and the Fisherman'', CD by Mohammed Mrabet}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1991&nbsp;– ''The Pelcari Project'' by Rodrigo Rey Rosa}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1991&nbsp;– ''Tanger: Vues Choisies'' by [[Jellel Gasteli]]}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1992&nbsp;– ''Chocolate Creams and Dollars'' by various authors}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 2004&nbsp;– ''Collected Stories'' by Mohammed Mrabet}}
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===Travel, autobiography and letters===
{{Hanging indent |text= 1957&nbsp;– ''Yallah'', text by Paul Bowles, photos by Peter W. Haeberlin (travel)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1963&nbsp;– ''Their Heads are Green and Their Hands Are Blue'' (travel)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1972&nbsp;– ''Without stopping'' (autobiography)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1990&nbsp;– ''Two Years Beside The Strait'' (autobiography)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1991&nbsp;– ''Days: Tangier Journal'' (autobiography)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1993&nbsp;– ''17, Quai Voltaire'' (autobiography of Paris, 1931,1932)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1994&nbsp;– ''Photographs&nbsp;– "How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert?"'' (Paul Bowles & Simon Bischoff)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1995&nbsp;– ''In Touch&nbsp;– The Letters of Paul Bowles'' (edited by Jeffrey Miller)}}
{{Hanging indent |text=1997&nbsp;– "Dear Paul - Dear Ned: The Correspondence of Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem"}}

===Editions===
{{Hanging indent |text= 1984&nbsp;– ''Paul Bowles Selected Songs'' (edited by Peter Garland)}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1993&nbsp;– ''Too Far from Home'' (edited by Daniel Halpern) {{ISBN|0-88001-295-1}}}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1994&nbsp;– ''The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles'' (edited by [[Millicent Dillon]])}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1995&nbsp;– ''Paul Bowles: Music'' (edited by Claudia Swan) {{ISBN|0-9648083-0-7}}}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 2000&nbsp;– ''The Paul Bowles Reader'' (Peter Owen) {{ISBN|0-7206-1091-5}}}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 2001&nbsp;– ''The Stories of Paul Bowles'' (Ecco) {{ISBN|0-06-621273-1}}}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 2002&nbsp;– ''The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House'' (Daniel Halpern, ed. [[Library of America]]) {{ISBN|1-931082-19-7}}}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 2002&nbsp;– ''Collected Stories and Later Writings'' (Daniel Halpern, ed. [[Library of America]]) {{ISBN|1-931082-20-0}}}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 2010&nbsp;– ''Travels: Collected Writings, 1950–93'' (Mark Ellingham, ed. [[Sort of Books]], London) {{ISBN|978-0-9560038-7-4}}}}

===Selected discography of musical compositions and readings===

{{Hanging indent |text= 1984&nbsp;– ''American Piano Music, Vol. I'' ([[Bennett Lerner]], Piano), [[Etcetera Records]], KTC 1019<ref>{{cite web|author=[[Etcetera Records]] |url=https://www.etcetera-records.com/album/273/american-piano-music |title=American Piano Music |publisher=Etcetera-records.com |date=January 1984 |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref>}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1986&nbsp;– ''American Piano Music, Vol. II'' (Bennett Lerner, Piano), Etcetera Records, KTC 1036}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1995&nbsp;– ''Paul Bowles, A Musical Portrait'' ([[Irene Herrmann]], Piano; [[Mark Brandenburg (musician)|Mark Brandenburg]], Clarinet; [[Michael McGushin]], Piano; [[Brian Staufenbiel]], Tenor; [[Susan Waller]], Flute; [[Roger Wiesmeyer]], Oboe), [[Koch Entertainment|KOCH International Classics]], 3-7343-2H1}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1995&nbsp;– ''Paul Bowles, Migrations'' (HCD-Productions: [[Hermann Kretzschmar (born 1958)|Hermann Kretzschmar]],<ref name="HCD_a">{{cite web|author=Ensemble Modern |url=https://www.ensemble-modern.com/en/about-us/members/hermann-kretzschmar |title=Members of the Ensemble Modern: Hermann Kretzschmar |publisher=Ensemble-modern.com |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref> [[Catherine Milliken]],<ref name="HCD_b">{{cite web|author=Cathy Milliken |url=https://www.cathymilliken.com/en/cathy-milliken/extended-biography |title=Cathy Milliken: Extended Biography |publisher=Cathymilliken.com |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref> [[Dietmar Wiesner]]<ref name="HCD_c">{{cite web|author=Ensemble Modern |url=https://www.ensemble-modern.com/en/about-us/members/dietmar-wiesner |title=Members of the Ensemble Modern: Dietmar Wiesner |publisher=Ensemble-modern.com |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref>), [[Largo Records]], 5131<ref name="HCD_a" /><ref name="HCD_c" />}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1995&nbsp;– ''Paul Bowles, An American in Paris'', [[Koch Entertainment|KOCH International]], 3-1574-2 }}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1995&nbsp;– ''Paul Bowles, Baptism Of Solitude'', Meta Records 9601. Bowles reads his own written works to sound scapes ("sound design") provided by [[Bill Laswell]] }}
{{Hanging indent |text= 1996&nbsp;– ''The Music of Paul Bowles'' ([[Eos Orchestra]]), Catalyst Records/ [[Sony Masterworks|BMG Classics]], 09026-68409-2<ref name="FanFaire_a" />}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 2016&nbsp;– ''Paul Bowles: Complete Piano Works – Vol. 1'' (Invencia Piano Duo: [[Andrey Kasparov]] & [[Oksana Lutsyshyn]]), [[Naxos Records]]/ American Classics, 8.559786<ref name="Naxos_a" /><ref name="Invencia_a" /><ref name="Gramophone_a" /><ref name="Azúa_a" /><ref name="Ritmo_a" />}}
{{Hanging indent |text= 2016&nbsp;– ''Paul Bowles: Complete Piano Works – Vol. 2'' (Invencia Piano Duo: Andrey Kasparov & Oksana Lutsyshyn), Naxos Records/ American Classics, 8.559787<ref name="Naxos_b" /><ref name="Invencia_c" /><ref name="Ritmo_a" />}}

===Film appearances and interviews===
{{Hanging indent |text= ''[[Paul Bowles in Morocco]]'' (1970), produced and directed by [[Gary Conklin]] 57 minutes}}
{{Hanging indent |text= ''[[Paul Bowles Across the Strait]]'' (1983), produced and directed by [[Eve M. Silvester]] 33 minutes}}
{{Hanging indent |text= "Paul Bowles": [[South Bank Show]] [[London Studios]] (1988), produced by [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], directed by [[Melvyn Bragg]], 54 minutes}}
{{Hanging indent |text= In [[1990 in film|1990]] [[Bernardo Bertolucci]] adapted ''[[The Sheltering Sky (film)|The Sheltering Sky]]'' into a film in which Bowles has a cameo role and provides partial narration. 132 minutes}}
{{Hanging indent |text= "Things Gone and Things Still Here" 1991, Directed by award winning [[BBC]] Filmmaker [[Clement Barclay]]. This film tries to decode the world of Paul Bowles in a one-hour documentary. Chicago Film festival winner.}}
{{Hanging indent |text= "Paul Bowles The Complete Outsider" 1993, by [[Catherine Hiller Marnow]] and [[Regina Weinreich]] 57 minutes.}}
{{Hanging indent |text= "Half Moon" 1995, three stories by Paul Bowles, {{ill|Frieder Schlaich|de}} and {{ill|Irene von Alberti|de}}. First Run Features, 91 minutes}}
{{Hanging indent |text= "Halbmond" 1995, German version of "Half Moon", Frieder Schlaich and Irene von Alberti. First Run Features, 90 minutes}}
{{Hanging indent |text= "Let It Come Down" 1998, Requisite Productions, Zeitgeist Films, pub. 72 minutes, not rated.&nbsp;– this film is likely the definitive portrait of the author late in life. Directed by [[Jennifer Baichwal]], includes footage of the final meeting between Bowles, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg which took place in 1995 in New York. 72 minutes}}
{{Hanging indent |text= "Night Waltz" 2002, [[Owsley Brown]] Film of the music of Paul Bowles, with [[Phillip Ramey]] and an Interview with [[Jonathan Sheffer]], conductor of the [[Eos Orchestra]]. 77 minutes}}
{{Hanging indent |text= ''[[The Cage Door Is Always Open]]'', 2012}}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

===Other references===
* {{cite book|title=Paul Bowles: Le Reclus de Tanger|last= Choukri| first= Mohamed |date=1997}}
* {{cite book|title=The Dream at the End of the World: Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier|last=Green|first=Michelle|date=1991|publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-06-016571-5|url=https://archive.org/details/dreamatendofworl00gree}}
* {{cite book|title=The Tangier Diaries|last= Hopkins |first= John |date=1998|publisher= Cadmus Editions |isbn= 93-227-4501-0}}
* {{cite news|author-link=Edgar Oliver|last= Oliver| first= Edgar|title=Courting Paul Bowles in Tangier|date=April 30, 2011|work=The MOTH|url=http://themoth.org/posts/stories/courting-paul-bowles-in-tangier}}
* {{cite book|title=Stars in the Firmament: Tangier Characters 1660–1960|last= Woolman| first= David |date=1998|publisher= Passeggiata Press|isbn= 1-57889-068-3}}

==Further reading==

===Biographies and memoirs===
* ''Paul Bowles: 2117 Tanger Socco'', Robert Briatte (1989), {{ISBN|2-259-02007-0}} The first biography of Paul Bowles (in French)
* ''An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles'', Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno (1989)
* ''You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles'', Millicent Dillon (1998)
* ''Paul Bowles: A Life'', Virginia Spencer Carr (2004), {{ISBN|0-684-19657-3}}
* ''Isherwood, Bowles, Vedanta, Wicca, and Me'', Lee Prosser (2001), {{ISBN|0-595-20284-5}}
* ''Paul Bowles, Magic and Morocco'', Allan Hibbard (2004), {{ISBN|978-0-932274-61-8}}
* ''February House'', Sherill Tippins (2005), {{ISBN|0-618-41911-X}}
* ''Paul Bowles by his Friends'', Gary Pulsifer (1992), {{ISBN|0-7206-0866-X}}
* ''Second Son: an autobiography'', David Herbert (1972), {{ISBN|0-7206-0272-6}}
* ''The Sheltering Sky'', (movie edition) Bertolucci and Bowles (1990), {{ISBN|0-356-19579-1}}
* ''Here to Learn'', [[Mark Terrill]] (2002), {{ISBN|1-891408-29-1}}
* ''Yesterday's Perfume'', Cherie Nutting with Paul Bowles (2000), {{ISBN|0-609-60573-9}}
* "Tangier Love Story, Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles and Me", Carol Adman (2014), ASIN B00NMM642G

===Literary criticism of Paul Bowles===
* ''The Short Story in Midcentury America: Countercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams'', Sam Reese (2017), {{ISBN| 978-0-8071-6576-8}}
* ''Paul Bowles: Romantic Savage'', Gena Dagel Caponi (1994), {{ISBN|0-8093-1923-3}}
* ''Paul Bowles: The Inner Geography'', Wayne Pounds (1985), {{ISBN|0-8204-0192-7}}
* ''Paul Bowles: The Illumination of North Africa'', Lawrence D. Stewart (1974), {{ISBN|0-8093-0651-4}}
* ''Paul Bowles: Twayne's Authors Series'', Gena Dagel Caponi (1998), {{ISBN|0-8057-4560-2}}
* ''The Fiction of Paul Bowles: The Soul is the Weariest Part of the Body'', Hans Bertens (1979), {{ISBN|90-6203-992-8}}
* ''A World Outside: The Fiction of Paul Bowles'', Richard Patteson (1987), {{ISBN|978-0-292-79035-3}}

===Published interviews with Bowles===
* ''Conversations with Paul Bowles'', Gena Dagel Caponi (1993), {{ISBN|0-87805-650-5}}
* ''Desultory Correspondence'', Florian Vetsch (1997), {{ISBN|3-9520497-7-8}}

===Catalog and archive editions on Bowles===
* ''Paul Bowles: A Descriptive Bibliography'', Jeffrey Miller (1986), {{ISBN|0-87685-610-5}}
* ''Paul Bowles on Music'', edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrmann (2003), {{ISBN|0-520-23655-6}}

==External links==
* [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/526429.stm Obituary], BBC World
* Official website: [https://www.paulbowles.org www.paulbowles.org]

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