1999 Bowles transfers the majority of his literary papers to an archive at the University of Delaware. Owsley Browne’s documentary Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles is released. Bowles is hospitalized due to cardiac problems on November 7. Suffers heart attack in hospital and dies on November 18. Bowles’ ashes are interred near those of his parents and grandparents at Lakemont Cemetery in Lakemont, New York.
Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980s
Acknowledgments
In compiling and editing this book, I am indebted to many of the Bowles fraternity. Kenneth Lisenbee, who runs the excellent Paul and Jane Bowles website (paulbowles.org), was enormously generous in helping to locate articles, providing leads to photographs and their copyright holders, and encouraging the project. I am also grateful for their knowledge and comments to Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Paul and Jane Bowles’ literary executor), Phillip Ramey, Jeffrey Miller, Daniel Halpern, Barnaby Rogerson, and Theo Collier and Charles Buchan at the Wylie Agency. Thanks for photo research to Jaime Margalotti, Rebecca Johnson Melvin, Stacy Hopping, Nick Homenda and Linda Briscoe Myers. For design, proofing and inputting, thanks to Henry Iles, Susanne Hillen and Gabriella Jaffe. And special thanks to Paul Theroux for the introduction and Dan Halpern for the Chronology.
About the Author
PAUL BOWLES was born in Queens, New York, in 1910. He began his travels as a teenager, setting off for Paris, telling no one of his plans. In 1930 he visited Morocco for the first time, with Aaron Copland, with whom he was studying music. His early reputation was as a composer and he wrote the scores for several Tennessee Williams plays. Bowles married the writer Jane Auer in 1938, and after the war the couple settled in Tangier. In Morocco Bowles turned principally to fiction. The Sheltering Sky— inspired by his travels in the Sahara—was a New York Times bestseller in 1950, and has gone on to sell more than 250,000 copies. It was followed by three further novels, numerous short stories, nonfiction, and translations. Bowles died in Tangier in 1999.
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Books by Paul Bowles
NOVELS
The Sheltering Sky
Let It Come Down
The Spider’s House
Up Above the World
NOVELLA
Too Far from Home
SHORT STORIES
The Delicate Prey
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
The Time of Friendship
Pages from Cold Point
and Other Stories
Things Gone and Things Still Here
Midnight Mass and Other Stories
Call at Corazón and Other Stories
Collected Stories, 1939–1976
Unwelcome Words
A Thousand Days for Mokhtar
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Without Stopping
Days: A Tangier Diary
LETTERS
In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles
(edited by Jeffrey Miller)
POETRY
Two Poems
Scenes
The Thicket of Spring
Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926–1977
NONFICTION, TRAVEL, ESSAYS, MISCELLANEOUS
Yallah! (written by Paul Bowles
with photographs by Peter W. Haeberlinb)
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue
Points in Time
Credits
Cover photograph: Paul Bowles in Morocco, October 1987, by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images
Copyright
We are grateful for permission to reproduce the following photographs and manuscripts: Harry Ransom Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin (pp. 178, 258, 486); Paul Bowles Papers, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware (pp. 154, 436, 509); Paul Bowles photo archives at Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland (pp. 15, 44, 69, 78, 83, 88, 94, 149, 200, 248, 276, 406, 428, 449); Karl Bissinger/Catherine Johnson (p. 1); Magnum Photo Library (p. 8). All other photos are courtesy of the Paul Bowles Estate.
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1 17 Quai Voltaire is a memoir of Paul Bowles’ stay in Paris in 1931-32, written some time in the 1980s. It was published after his death, initially as a monograph in French, and later in English by the magazine Open City (#20; 2005).
2 It is not excessive to characterise the measures of British retaliation, including the expedient of setting a bounty on dead Kikuyus, as counter-terror. An additional item of interest is the number of official hangings carried out by the government during the peak period of hostilities. From October 1952 through March 1956, 1,015 were exectured, an average of one a day. [Author’s original footnote]
3 The states of Travancore and Cochin subsequently merged to form the modern province of Kerala. [Editor’s footnote]