Paul Bowles is one of the best American short-story writers of the twentieth century. The most salient aspect of all Bowles's fiction, the four novels as well as the short fiction, is the use of foreign settings. Only a handful of his more than sixty...

Paul Bowles has never fit well into a single category; he is intensely private, preferring to display his life only in art and variously as poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, journalist, musicologist, and composer (operas, film and theatre...

Even though Paul Bowles (1910-1999) wrote stories, composed music, and lived in some of the world's most exotic places, he was not one who craved recognition. The general public, even those who considered themselves well-informed, might not have...

Paul Bowles was born in New York City, the only child of Claude Dietz Bowles, a dentist, and Rena Winewisser. He attended the University of Virginia for two semesters, drawn to the school because Edgar Allan Poe had been a student there. He also...