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Paul Bowles (1) [1910–1999]

This page covers the author of The Sheltering Sky.

For other authors named Paul Bowles, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky 3,996 copies, 74 reviews
Let It Come Down 524 copies, 6 reviews
The Spider's House 514 copies, 5 reviews
The Stories of Paul Bowles 372 copies, 4 reviews
Up Above the World 364 copies, 11 reviews
Collected Stories, 1939–1976 332 copies, 2 reviews
The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House 326 copies, 3 reviews
Collected Stories and Later Writings 319 copies, 2 reviews
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue 291 copies, 4 reviews
The Delicate Prey and Other Stories 288 copies, 4 reviews
Without Stopping: An Autobiography 219 copies, 1 review
Midnight Mass 161 copies, 1 review
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard 143 copies, 2 reviews
Days: A Tangier Diary 126 copies
Points in Time 126 copies, 1 review
A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories 123 copies, 2 reviews
Too Far from Home: The Selected Writings of Paul Bowles 116 copies
In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles 101 copies
Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 95 copies, 3 reviews
No Exit: A Play in One Act 85 copies, 2 reviews
Unwelcome Words 57 copies, 2 reviews
Pages From Cold Point 46 copies
The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles 46 copies, 1 review
Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926–1977 37 copies
The Time of Friendship 36 copies
Paul Bowles Photographs: "How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert?" 34 copies
Senso [1954 film] (Dialogue) 30 copies, 1 review
Morocco 30 copies
Conversations With Paul Bowles (Literary Conversations Series) 26 copies
Call at Corazon 23 copies
Too Far from Home 21 copies
Lo scorpione e altri racconti 20 copies
She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her 19 copies
Things Gone and Things Still Here 17 copies
A Thousand Days for Mokhtar 15 copies
Yallah 12 copies, 1 review
Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings 10 copies
Music 10 copies
CUENTOS ESCOGIDOS BOWLES 10 copies, 1 review
Paul Bowles on Music 10 copies
The Paul Bowles Reader 9 copies
Un thé sur la montagne 8 copies
L'écho 7 copies
M'hashish & Cento cammelli nel cortile 6 copies
Gesammelte Erzählungen I 5 copies
ALLAL. Stories aus Marokko. 5 copies
Blue Mountain Ballads: Voice and Piano 5 copies
Three Tales 5 copies
Tanger : vues choisies 5 copies
Education de Malika, L' 5 copies
In the Red Room (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties -… 4 copies
Music of Morocco : from the Library of Congress : recorded by Paul Bowles,… 4 copies
Thicket Of Spring: Poems 1926-1969 4 copies
Gesammelte Werke 6. Gesammelte Erzählungen 2 4 copies
Selected Songs 3 copies
Antaeus No. 11, Autumn 1973 3 copies
A Little Stone 3 copies
New York - Tanger. Erzählungen. 3 copies
Portraits, nudes, clouds : abook of photographs 3 copies
The Hours After Noon 3 copies
Baptism of solitude [sound recording] 2 copies
Sur Gertrude Stein: entretiens avec Florian Vetsch 2 copies
The Music of Paul Bowles 2 copies
Romans 2 copies
Der ferne Kontinent. Erzählungen 2 copies
Black Star at the Point of Darkness - Music, Stories, Recordings. CD 2 copies
Antaeus No. 2, Spring 1971 2 copies
Cuentos del desierto 2 copies
En Contacto (Spanish Edition) 2 copies
孤独の洗礼;無の近傍 (ポール・ボウルズ作品集) 2 copies
À Beira da água 1 copy
Bowles: Lo Scorpione e altri racconti Racconti d'Autore 1 Sole 24 Ore… 1 copy
In absentia 1 copy
Yükseklerde 1 copy
Music of Paul Bowles 1 copy
Music for a Farce 1 copy, 1 review
The Pool K III 1 copy
Tantos Caminhos. Autobiografia 1 copy
M'Haschich 1 copy
真夜中のミサ 1 copy
遠い木霊 1 copy
越境する世界文学―VOICES FROM BORDER (Bungei Special Issue) 1 copy
モロッコ幻想物語 1 copy
Two Landscapes and Automobile with Figures, Three Photos by Bowles 1 copy
Antaeus. Years 1972 through 1980, 1983-1984, 1986, 1988-1990, 1992-1994 1 copy
Kulchur (Issue Number One) 1 copy
Migrations [sound recording] 1 copy
Troppo lontano da casa 1 copy
Cuentos reunidos: Bowles (Cuentos completos) (Spanish Edition) 1 copy
Paul Bowles, 1910-1999 : catalog of an exhibition August 22, 2000-December… 1 copy
BOWLES: The SHELTERING SKY/ LET IT COME DOWN/ The SPIDER`S HOUSE 1 copy
An American in Paris songs, piano pieces, concerto 1 copy
Un monde plus grand. Illustré par Loustal, Traduction de Coindreau 1 copy
Cabin 1 copy
Taufe der Einsamkeit: Reiseberichte, 1950-1972 1 copy
Paul Bowles 1910 - 1999: A Catalog of an Exhibition, August 22, 2000 -… 1 copy
El Jefe T.A. Odutola : el Ogbeni Oja de Ijebu-Ode 1 copy
"Merkala Beach," London Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1960 1 copy
Antaeus No. 4, Winter 1971 1 copy
The Circular Valley (Short Story) 1 copy
Argo, an Individual Quarterly: Vol. I, No. 2, December, 1930. 1 copy
Antaeus No. 17, Spring 1975 1 copy
Antaeus No. 18, Summer 1975 1 copy
Antaeus No. 3, Autumn 1971 1 copy
Oltalmazó ég [The Sheltering Sky] 1 copy
"From Notes Taken in Thailand," Prose, No 4, 1972, pp. 25-36 1 copy
Complete piano works. 1 [sound recording] 1 copy
Nocturne for two pianos [sound recording] ; [and other works] (Composer) 1 copy
Complete piano works. 2 [sound recording] 1 copy
"Midnight Mass" in Antaeus, No. 32, winter 1979 1 copy
Antaeus No. 1, Summer 1970 1 copy
"Istikhara, Anaya, Medagan and the Medaganat," Antaeus, No. 21/22,… 1 copy
"Mejdoub," Antaeus, No. 13/14, 1974, pp. 106-110 1 copy
A picnic cantata ; music 1 copy
Al Maghrib: Photographs from Morocco (General) 1 copy
Soundings 5 1 copy
"Reminders of Bouselham," Transatlantic Review, No. 60, The Final Issue,… 1 copy
Concerto for two pianos, winds and percussion 1 copy
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Also by Paul Bowles
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Contributor) 683 copies, 2 reviews
American Gothic Tales (Contributor) 411 copies, 5 reviews
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories… (Contributor) 359 copies, 3 reviews
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 347 copies, 1 review
For Bread Alone (Translator, some editions) 333 copies, 17 reviews
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (Contributor) 309 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (Contributor) 246 copies, 5 reviews
The Burroughs File (Contributor) 196 copies, 2 reviews
The Oblivion Seekers and Other Writings (Translator, some editions) 170 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (Contributor) 153 copies
A Life Full of Holes (Translator, some editions) 137 copies
The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (Contributor) 115 copies
The Norton Book of Travel (Contributor) 106 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 1984 (Contributor) 93 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (Contributor) 89 copies, 2 reviews
Elsewhere, Vol. III (Contributor) 88 copies
The Lemon (Translator, some editions) 87 copies, 5 reviews
M'Hashish (Translator) 87 copies
Love with a Few Hairs (Translator, some editions) 86 copies
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits… (Contributor) 68 copies
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (Contributor) 60 copies, 1 review
The Boy Who Set the Fire (Translator, some editions) 59 copies, 2 reviews
Jean Genet in Tangier (Translator, some editions) 57 copies, 1 review
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (Contributor) 53 copies, 1 review
Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (Contributor) 53 copies, 3 reviews
And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America (Translator) 44 copies, 3 reviews
Dust on Her Tongue (Translator, some editions) 43 copies, 2 reviews
O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane (Foreword) 37 copies
Yesterday's Perfume (Contributor) 30 copies
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (Contributor) 29 copies
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (Contributor) 29 copies, 2 reviews
The Big Mirror (Translator) 26 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (Contributor) 22 copies
Fetish: An Anthology (Contributor) 21 copies, 1 review
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (Contributor) 11 copies
Big Table 2 (Contributor) 10 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1949 (Contributor) 6 copies
Stroker anthology, 1974-1994 (Contributor) 6 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1948 (Contributor) 5 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 1958 (Contributor) 5 copies
Aardse betovering: magische verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (Contributor) 4 copies
Open City, Volume 20 (Contributor) 3 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1950 (Contributor) 3 copies
With much fire in the heart : the letters of Mohammed Mrabet to Irving… (Translator) 2 copies
ポール・ボウルズ (現代詩手帖 特装版) (Contributor) 1 copy
Jilala: Sufi Trance Music From Morocco [sound recording] (Field Recording) 1 copy
ユリイカ 詩と批評 1992年 05月号… (Contributor) 1 copy
The storyteller & the fisherman (Translator & Narrator) 1 copy
Works by Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, Lee Hoiby, Richard Hundley, John… (Composer) 1 copy
"Bachir Alive and Dead," Antaeus, No. 15, Autumn 1974, pp. 90-98 (Translator) 1 copy
Antaeus No. 37, Spring 1980 - On the Poetry of Stanley Kunitz (Contributor) 1 copy
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Bowles, Paul Frederic
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Боулз, Пол
Date of birth
1910-12-30
Date of death
1999-11-18
Burial location
Lakemont Cemetery, Lakemont, New York, USA
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA
Place of death
Tangier, Morocco
Cause of death
heart failure
Places of residence
New York, New York, USA
Tangier, Morocco
Education
University of Virginia
Occupations
author
translator
composer
Ethnomusicologist
Relationships
Bowles, Jane Auer (wife)
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981)
Awards and honors
Rea Award for the Short Story (1991)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1950)
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