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Bowles, Paul (Frederic)
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Bowles, Paul (Frederic) (
b NY, 1910;
d Tangier, Morocco, 1999). Amer. composer. Collector of folk mus. in Sp., N. Africa, C. and S. America, results influencing his exotic and colourful mus. Has comp. much chamber mus., 3 operas (2 to texts by Lorca), 5 ballets, incl.
Yankee Clipper (1936), film mus. and much th. mus. (for plays by Tennessee Williams, Saroyan, Koestler, and Hellman). Was for 4 years mus. critic of
NY Herald Tribune. Also successful as novelist (e.g.
The Sheltering Sky, 1949).
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Paul Bowles on Music.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Paul Bowles on Music. Edited by Timothy Mangan and...Whether he wanted it or not, fame has found Paul Bowles (1910-1999). For some his reputation...will be glad to greet the appearance of Paul Bowles on Music, edited by Timothy Mangan...
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Paul Bowles.
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; When Paul Bowles died in Tangier, Morocco, in November...many talents, it seems rather odd that Paul Bowles is not more widely regarded as a leading...individualism. The mere fact of being Paul Bowles has greatly overshadowed his artistic...
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Paul Bowles: The Outsider of the Avant-Garde
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/11/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...INVISIBLE SPECTATOR A Biography of Paul Bowles By Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno...EPISODE The Selected Stories By Paul Bowles The Ecco Press. 352 pp. Paperback...second novel, Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles calls one of its characters, Richard...
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Paul Bowles: A study in contradictions
Magazine article from: USA Today; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...wellknownness, author Paul Bowles has become an anti...insisted he never gave Bowles lessons. "He learned...worked for him, really. Paul had a gift for the theater...have it or you don't. Paul did." Bowles wrote scores for more...
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Paul Bowles: a study in contradictions.(author)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...knownness, author Paul Bowles has become an anti...insisted he never gave Bowles lessons. "He learned...worked for him, really. Paul had a gift for the theater...have it or you don't. Paul did." Bowles wrote scores for more...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Paul Bowles.(author)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/27/1999; 700+ words
; Paul Bowles, "the only American existentialist...aged 88 WHEN he was six weeks old, Paul Bowles was undressed by his father and placed...the sort of horror story that excited Paul Bowles's imagination. A fascination with macabre...
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Paul Bowles - Photographs: "How Could I Send A Picture Into the Desert?"
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 11/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Bernardo Bertolucci's version of Paul Bowles' novel The Sheltering Sky, I saw...postwar "city of dreams"--so Bowles refers nostalgically, and in considerable...grows. The collection of images in Paul Bowles--Photographs: "How could I...
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`The Stories of Paul Bowles,' by Paul Bowles; Ecco/HarperCollins.(The Seattle Times)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 12/5/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...lines serve as a casual aside in Paul Bowles' wry tale, "In Absentia." But...perhaps they're not so casual. Bowles, who died at 88 in 1999, spent...gained new urgency. "The Stories of Paul Bowles," a definitive collection of his...
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The Stories of Paul Bowles. (Review & opinion: the whole story).(Review)
Magazine article from: Book; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; The Whole Story PAUL BOWLES HarperCollins, 672 pages HOW DO YOU TELL A GREAT WRITER FROM the...transforms itself into a shimmering web of fugitive impressions. With Paul Bowles, the effect may be even stronger, as this first complete collection...
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Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...attest to the continuing interest in Bowles. He has in the last 15 years, since...1980 and Jeffrey Miller's massive Paul Bowles: A Descriptive Bibliography in 1986...without a doubt, a major influence on Bowles. His mother read Poe's stories...
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Paul Bowles
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Paul Bowles Even though Paul Bowles (born 1910) wrote stories, composed music, and lived in...beat" generation, commonly referred to as "beatniks." Paul Frederick Bowles was born on December 30, 1910, in New York City. He was...
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Bowles, Paul
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Bowles, Paul (1910–1999), born in New...and translated from an Arabic dialect by Bowles, one of his many translations. Without...long lived. In Touch, the Letters of Paul Bowles, covering a lifetime of correspondence...
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Bowles, Paul (Frederic)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Bowles, Paul (Frederic) ( b NY, 1910; d Tangier, Morocco, 1999). Amer. composer. Collector of folk mus. in Sp., N. Africa, C...
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Bowles, Jane
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Bowles, Jane (1917–73), New York‐born author, resident...periods as a child with her family and as an adult after marriage (1938) to Paul Bowles . She created a reputation among the avant‐garde with Two Serious...
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In the Summer House
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Summer House (1953), a play by Jane Bowles. [Playhouse, 55 perf.] Gertrude...Lincoln Center in 1993. Jane Auer BOWLES (1917–73), the wife of composer and author Paul Bowles, was best known for her novels and...
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