Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles has written at least 41 books. Their most popular book is The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House with 91 saves with an average rating of 3.59⭐.

Author Bio

Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.

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. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel The Sheltering Sky (1949), set in what was known as French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931.

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 Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) during the early 1950s, Tangier was Bowles' home for the remainder of his life. He came to symbolize American immigrants in the city.

Paul Bowles died in 1999 at the age of 88. His ashes are buried near family graves in Lakemont Cemetery, in upstate New York.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House Paul Bowles	3.59	27 reads
Let It Come Down Paul Bowles	4.5	3 reads
The Sheltering Sky The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles	4.5	3 reads
For Bread Alone Mohamed Choukri Paul Bowles (Translator)	3.5	2 reads
The Spider's House Paul Bowles	0	1 read
The Oblivion Seekers Isabelle Eberhardt	5	1 read
Collected Stories, 1939-1976 Collected Stories, 1939-1976 Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Without Stopping Paul Bowles	3	2 reads
The Delicate Prey The Delicate Prey: And Other Stories Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Collected Stories Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
The Stories of Paul Bowles Paul Bowles	0	1 read
The Delicate Prey and Other Stories Paul Bowles	5	1 read
Collected stories & later writings Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Antología del cuento norteamericano Washington Irving Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Herman Melville Mark Twain Bret Harte Ambrose Bierce Henry James Joel Chandler Harris Sarah Orne Jewett Kate Chopin Edith Wharton O. Henry Stephen Crane Willa Cather Sherwood Anderson Jack London William Carlos Williams Ring Lardner Raymond Chandler Conrad Aiken Katherine Anne Porter Dorothy Parker James Thurber Francis Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck Kay Boyle S.J. Perelman Robert Penn Warren John O’Hara Eudora Welty Paul Bowles John Cheever Irwin Shaw Delmore Schwartz Ralph Ellison Bernard Malamud Peter Taylor Grace Paley Kurt Vonnegut William H. Gass James Baldwin FLANNERY O’CONNOR Richard Yates Stanley Elkin Donald Barthelme John Updike Philip Roth Leonard Michaels Raymond Carver Bharati Mukherjee John Edgar Wideman Barry Hannah Stuart Dybek Joy Williams Tobias Wolff Richard Bausch Tim O’Brian Ann Beattie T.C. Boyle Jamaica Kincaid Lorrie Moore	0	0 reads
Notes on Thought and Vision H.D.	0	0 reads
Love With a Few Hairs Mohammed Mrabet Paul Bowles (Translator)	0	0 reads
The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles Paul Bowles Jane Bowles	0	0 reads
Midnight Mass Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
O Céu Que nos Protege O Céu Que nos Protege Paul Bowles	0	1 read
Up Above the World: A Novel Paul Bowles	4	1 read
The Spiders House The Spiders House Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Memorias de Un Nomada Paul Bowles	2	1 read
Himmel über der Wüste Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Cuentos escogidos Paul Bowles	3	1 read
Un Episodio Distante Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
The Beach Cafe & The Voice Mohammed Mrabet Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
The Spider's House The Spider's House: A Novel Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
American Fantastic Tales American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now	0	1 read
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Un thé au Sahara Un thé au Sahara Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Pod osłoną nieba Paul Bowles Tomasz Bieroń (Translator)	1	1 read
Too Far from Home Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Travels Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Up Above the World Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
La casa de la araña Paul Bowles	3	1 read
Il tè nel deserto Paul Bowles Hilia Brinis (Translator)	0	0 reads
Ceai în Sahara Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
The stories of Paul Bowles Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Mémoires d'un nomade Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
Pagine da Cold Point Paul Bowles Mario Biondi (Translator)	0	0 reads
A Distant Episode Paul Bowles	0	0 reads
El cielo protector El cielo protector Paul Bowles Nicole d'Amonville Alegría (translator)	0	0 reads
L'čho Paul Bowles	0	0 reads