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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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Series

ポールボウルズ作品集

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Works by Paul Bowles

The Sheltering Sky 3,665 copies, 74 reviews

Let It Come Down 471 copies, 6 reviews

The Spider's House 453 copies, 4 reviews

The Stories of Paul Bowles 346 copies, 4 reviews

Up Above the World 329 copies, 10 reviews

The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House 318 copies, 3 reviews

Collected Stories, 1939–1976 302 copies, 2 reviews

Collected Stories and Later Writings 297 copies, 2 reviews

The Delicate Prey and Other Stories 268 copies, 4 reviews

Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue 260 copies, 3 reviews

Without Stopping: An Autobiography 195 copies, 1 review

Midnight Mass 153 copies, 1 review

A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard 142 copies, 2 reviews

Too Far From Home 123 copies

Points in Time 118 copies, 1 review

Days: A Tangier Diary 115 copies

A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories 110 copies, 2 reviews

In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles 95 copies

Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 80 copies, 2 reviews

Unwelcome Words 52 copies, 2 reviews

The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles 41 copies, 1 review

Pages From Cold Point 40 copies

Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926–1977 32 copies, 1 review

Paul Bowles Photographs: "How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert?" 29 copies

The Time of Friendship 29 copies

Morocco 28 copies

Senso [1954 film] (Dialogue) 25 copies, 1 review

Conversations With Paul Bowles (Literary Conversations Series) 22 copies

Five Eyes 22 copies

Lo scorpione e altri racconti 20 copies

Call at Corazon 19 copies

She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her 17 copies

Things Gone and Things Still Here 15 copies

A Thousand Days for Mokhtar 13 copies

Paul Bowles on Music 10 copies

Music 9 copies

Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings 9 copies

CUENTOS ESCOGIDOS BOWLES 8 copies, 1 review

The Paul Bowles Reader 8 copies

Un thé sur la montagne 8 copies

L'écho 6 copies

M'hashish & Cento cammelli nel cortile 6 copies

Gesammelte Erzählungen I 5 copies

Education de Malika, L' 5 copies

Three Tales 4 copies

ALLAL. Stories aus Marokko. 4 copies

Gesammelte Werke 6. Gesammelte Erzählungen 2 4 copies

Portraits, nudes, clouds : abook of photographs 3 copies

Music of Morocco : from the Library of Congress : recorded by Paul Bowles,… 3 copies

Antaeus No. 11, Autumn 1973 3 copies

A Little Stone 3 copies

In the Red Room (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties -… 3 copies

Sur Gertrude Stein: entretiens avec Florian Vetsch 2 copies

Selected Songs 2 copies

The Hours After Noon 2 copies

The Music of Paul Bowles 2 copies

New York - Tanger. Erzählungen. 2 copies

Tanger: vues choisies 2 copies

Antaeus No. 2, Spring 1971 2 copies

Cuentos del desierto 2 copies

孤独の洗礼;無の近傍 (ポール・ボウルズ作品集) 2 copies

Thicket Of Spring: Poems 1926-1969 2 copies

SPARROW 37: Hadidan Aharam 2 copies

Black Star at the Point of Darkness - Music, Stories, Recordings. CD 2 copies

Baptism of solitude [sound recording] 2 copies

"Mejdoub," Antaeus, No. 13/14, 1974, pp. 106-110 1 copy

Complete piano works. 1 [sound recording] 1 copy

"Istikhara, Anaya, Medagan and the Medaganat," Antaeus, No. 21/22,… 1 copy

Complete piano works. 2 [sound recording] 1 copy

Distant Episode, A [stories] 1 copy

遠い木霊 1 copy

真夜中のミサ 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

Kulchur (Issue Number One) 1 copy

En Contacto (Spanish Edition) 1 copy

Un monde plus grand. Illustré par Loustal, Traduction de Coindreau 1 copy

Ceai in Sahara (Romanian Edition) 1 copy

Concerto for two pianos, winds and percussion 1 copy

"Midnight Mass" in Antaeus, No. 32, winter 1979 1 copy

Romans 1 copy

Paul Bowles 1910 - 1999: A Catalog of an Exhibition, August 22, 2000 -… 1 copy

Der ferne Kontinent. Erzählungen 1 copy

In absentia 1 copy

Antaeus No. 17, Spring 1975 1 copy

Al Maghrib: Photographs from Morocco (General) 1 copy

Argo, an Individual Quarterly: Vol. I, No. 2, December, 1930. 1 copy

The Circular Valley (Short Story) 1 copy

Nocturne for two pianos [sound recording] ; [and other works] (Composer) 1 copy

Migrations [sound recording] 1 copy

Antaeus No. 18, Summer 1975 1 copy

Antaeus No. 3, Autumn 1971 1 copy

Distant Episode, A: the selected stories. Duplicate? 1 copy

"From Notes Taken in Thailand," Prose, No 4, 1972, pp. 25-36 1 copy

A picnic cantata ; music 1 copy

Soundings 5 1 copy

"Merkala Beach," London Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1960 1 copy

Cabin 1 copy

El Jefe T.A. Odutola : el Ogbeni Oja de Ijebu-Ode 1 copy

Antaeus No. 4, Winter 1971 1 copy

Taufe der Einsamkeit: Reiseberichte, 1950-1972 1 copy

"Reminders of Bouselham," Transatlantic Review, No. 60, The Final Issue,… 1 copy

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Also by Paul Bowles

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Contributor) 622 copies, 2 reviews

American Gothic Tales (Contributor) 362 copies, 5 reviews

You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories… (Contributor) 341 copies, 3 reviews

The Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 320 copies, 1 review

For Bread Alone (Translator, some editions) 291 copies, 12 reviews

The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (Contributor) 290 copies

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (Contributor) 221 copies, 5 reviews

The Burroughs File (Contributor) 182 copies, 1 review

The Oblivion Seekers and Other Writings (Translator) 153 copies, 4 reviews

The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (Contributor) 138 copies

A Life Full of Holes (Translator, some editions) 122 copies

The Norton Book of Travel (Contributor) 101 copies, 1 review

The Best American Short Stories 1984 (Contributor) 90 copies

The Lemon (Translator, some editions) 81 copies, 5 reviews

Elsewhere, Volume 3 (Contributor) 78 copies

Love with a Few Hairs (Translator, some editions) 73 copies

M'Hashish (Translator) 73 copies

Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits… (Contributor) 62 copies

The Boy Who Set the Fire (Translator, some editions) 60 copies, 2 reviews

The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (Contributor) 60 copies, 1 review

Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (Contributor) 51 copies, 1 review

Jean Genet in Tangier (Translator, some editions) 50 copies

Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (Contributor) 45 copies, 2 reviews

Dust on Her Tongue (Translator, some editions) 41 copies, 2 reviews

And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America (Translator) 40 copies, 3 reviews

O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane (Foreword) 37 copies

Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (Contributor) 27 copies

Yesterday's Perfume (Contributor) 27 copies

Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (Contributor) 25 copies, 2 reviews

The Big Mirror (Translator) 24 copies

Fetish: An Anthology (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review

The Best American Short Stories 1979 (Contributor) 20 copies

Big Table 2 (Contributor) 11 copies

Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (Contributor) 11 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1948 (Contributor) 4 copies, 1 review

The Best American Short Stories 1949 (Contributor) 3 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1958 (Contributor) 3 copies

Aardse betovering: magische verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (Contributor) 3 copies

Open City, Volume 20 (Contributor) 3 copies

Works by Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, Lee Hoiby, Richard Hundley, John… (Composer) 1 copy

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Bowles, Paul Frederic

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Lakemont Cemetery, Lakemont, New York, USA

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Birthplace

Jamaica, Queens, New York, New York, USA

Place of death

Tangier, Morocco

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New York, New York, USA

Tangier, Morocco

Education

University of Virginia

Occupations

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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Paul Bowles @ Wikipedia

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