Person Detail: Paul Bowles

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General Information:
Full Name: Paul Bowles
Biography: (1910-1999) Novelist, writer, poet, composer, writer. Paul Frederic Bowles was born in Queens, New York. He published at 17, and abandoned college. In 1929, he began his life of travels with a trip to Paris, where he hoped to establish himself as a real poet. Gertrude Stein told him he wasn't a real poet, he agreed with her, and turned his studies to music. In 1947, he moved to Tangier, Morocco. His fiction often traces the psychic disintegration of civilized men when faced with a primitive environment. He spent childhood summers in Glenora, New York on the shore of Seneca Lake. He lived on Staten Island with his wife, Jane Bowles.
Author's Timeline:
1910		Queens County Paul Frederic Bowles was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, in 1910.
1999		(Unknown) County Paul Bowles died in Tangiers, Morocco in 1999.
1999		Yates County Bowles is buried in Lakemont Cemetery in Lakemont, New York.
1950		(Unknown) County The Delicate Prey Short story collection.
1967		(Unknown) County The Time of Friendship Short story collection.
1949		(Unknown) County The Sheltering Sky Novel.
1966		(Unknown) County Up Above the World Novel.
1955		(Unknown) County The Spider's House Novel.
1964		(Unknown) County A Life Full of Holes
1972		(Unknown) County Without Stopping Autobiography.
1952		(Unknown) County Let It Come Down Novel.
1991		(Unknown) County Too Far From Home Novel.
1988		(Unknown) County Unwelcome Words: Seven Stories Short Story collection.
?		Yates County Bowles spent childhood summers in Glenora, New York on the shore of Seneca Lake.
?		Richmond County Bowles lived in Staten Island, New York, with his wife, Jane Bowles.
?		New York County Bowles lived in New York City.