Description:
Collected Stories 1939-1976 by Paul Frederic Bowlesintroduction by Gore Vidal
ISBN-13: 9780876853962
ISBN-10: 0876853963
Publication Date: 6/15/1979
Fourteenth printing
Publisher: Black Sparrow Books
Paperback
5.8 x 9 inches, 419 pages
Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier in the Interzone, 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 French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931.
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