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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 3,799 copies, 75 reviews
Let It Come Down 497 copies, 6 reviews
The Spider's House 477 copies, 5 reviews
The Stories of Paul Bowles 356 copies, 4 reviews
Up Above the World 349 copies, 11 reviews
The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House 319 copies, 3 reviews
Collected Stories, 1939–1976 318 copies, 2 reviews
Collected Stories and Later Writings 304 copies, 2 reviews
The Delicate Prey and Other Stories 276 copies, 4 reviews
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue 275 copies, 4 reviews
Without Stopping: An Autobiography 200 copies, 1 review
Midnight Mass 159 copies, 1 review
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard 144 copies, 2 reviews
Points in Time 126 copies, 1 review
Days: A Tangier Diary 124 copies
A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories 114 copies, 2 reviews
Too Far from Home: The Selected Writings of Paul Bowles 111 copies
In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles 97 copies
Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 90 copies, 2 reviews
No Exit: A Play in One Act 62 copies, 1 review
Unwelcome Words 52 copies, 2 reviews
The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles 43 copies, 1 review
Pages From Cold Point 42 copies
Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926–1977 35 copies, 1 review
The Time of Friendship 32 copies
Senso [1954 film] (Dialogue) 30 copies, 1 review
Morocco 30 copies
Paul Bowles Photographs: "How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert?" 29 copies
Conversations With Paul Bowles (Literary Conversations Series) 24 copies
Call at Corazon 20 copies
Lo scorpione e altri racconti 20 copies
Too Far from Home 19 copies
She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her 19 copies
Things Gone and Things Still Here 17 copies
A Thousand Days for Mokhtar 13 copies
Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings 10 copies
Paul Bowles on Music 10 copies
Music 9 copies
The Paul Bowles Reader 9 copies
CUENTOS ESCOGIDOS BOWLES 9 copies, 1 review
Un thé sur la montagne 8 copies
L'écho 7 copies
M'hashish & Cento cammelli nel cortile 6 copies
Blue Mountain Ballads: Voice and Piano 5 copies
Gesammelte Erzählungen I 5 copies
Education de Malika, L' 5 copies
Three Tales 4 copies
In the Red Room (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties -… 4 copies
Gesammelte Werke 6. Gesammelte Erzählungen 2 4 copies
ALLAL. Stories aus Marokko. 4 copies
Music of Morocco : from the Library of Congress : recorded by Paul Bowles,… 4 copies
The Hours After Noon 3 copies
Thicket Of Spring: Poems 1926-1969 3 copies
Antaeus No. 11, Autumn 1973 3 copies
A Little Stone 3 copies
Portraits, nudes, clouds : abook of photographs 3 copies
New York - Tanger. Erzählungen. 2 copies
Black Star at the Point of Darkness - Music, Stories, Recordings. CD 2 copies
Tanger: vues choisies 2 copies
Romans 2 copies
The Music of Paul Bowles 2 copies
Selected Songs 2 copies
Cuentos del desierto 2 copies
Sur Gertrude Stein: entretiens avec Florian Vetsch 2 copies
Baptism of solitude [sound recording] 2 copies
孤独の洗礼;無の近傍 (ポール・ボウルズ作品集) 2 copies
Antaeus No. 2, Spring 1971 2 copies
真夜中のミサ 1 copy
Antaeus. Years 1972 through 1980, 1983-1984, 1986, 1988-1990, 1992-1994 1 copy
Un monde plus grand. Illustré par Loustal, Traduction de Coindreau 1 copy
En Contacto (Spanish Edition) 1 copy
Concerto for two pianos, winds and percussion 1 copy
遠い木霊 1 copy
Antaeus No. 1, Summer 1970 1 copy
Ceai in Sahara (Romanian Edition) 1 copy
越境する世界文学―VOICES FROM BORDER (Bungei Special Issue) 1 copy
Kulchur (Issue Number One) 1 copy
M'Haschich 1 copy
Troppo lontano da casa 1 copy
Music of Paul Bowles 1 copy
Two Landscapes and Automobile with Figures, Three Photos by Bowles 1 copy
An American in Paris songs, piano pieces, concerto 1 copy
The Pool K III 1 copy
モロッコ幻想物語 1 copy
Music for a Farce 1 copy, 1 review
Argo, an Individual Quarterly: Vol. I, No. 2, December, 1930. 1 copy
Der ferne Kontinent. Erzählungen 1 copy
The Circular Valley (Short Story) 1 copy
Antaeus No. 17, Spring 1975 1 copy
Antaeus No. 18, Summer 1975 1 copy
Antaeus No. 3, Autumn 1971 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
In absentia 1 copy
Migrations [sound recording] 1 copy
Nocturne for two pianos [sound recording] ; [and other works] (Composer) 1 copy
Al Maghrib: Photographs from Morocco (General) 1 copy
Antaeus No. 4, Winter 1971 1 copy
Taufe der Einsamkeit: Reiseberichte, 1950-1972 1 copy
"Mejdoub," Antaeus, No. 13/14, 1974, pp. 106-110 1 copy
"Istikhara, Anaya, Medagan and the Medaganat," Antaeus, No. 21/22,… 1 copy
Complete piano works. 1 [sound recording] 1 copy
Complete piano works. 2 [sound recording] 1 copy
"Reminders of Bouselham," Transatlantic Review, No. 60, The Final Issue,… 1 copy
Soundings 5 1 copy
Cabin 1 copy
"Merkala Beach," London Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1960 1 copy
"From Notes Taken in Thailand," Prose, No 4, 1972, pp. 25-36 1 copy
A picnic cantata ; music 1 copy
"Midnight Mass" in Antaeus, No. 32, winter 1979 1 copy
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Also by Paul Bowles
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Contributor) 649 copies, 2 reviews
American Gothic Tales (Contributor) 379 copies, 5 reviews
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories… (Contributor) 346 copies, 3 reviews
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 331 copies, 1 review
For Bread Alone (Translator, some editions) 303 copies, 14 reviews
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (Contributor) 299 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (Contributor) 228 copies, 5 reviews
The Burroughs File (Contributor) 188 copies, 1 review
The Oblivion Seekers and Other Writings (Translator, some editions) 162 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (Contributor) 140 copies
A Life Full of Holes (Translator, some editions) 128 copies
The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (Contributor) 113 copies
The Norton Book of Travel (Contributor) 103 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 1984 (Contributor) 91 copies
The Lemon (Translator, some editions) 88 copies, 5 reviews
American Fantastic Tales (Contributor) 86 copies, 2 reviews
Love with a Few Hairs (Translator, some editions) 84 copies
M'Hashish (Translator) 80 copies
Elsewhere, Vol. III (Contributor) 80 copies
Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits… (Contributor) 63 copies
The Boy Who Set the Fire (Translator, some editions) 62 copies, 2 reviews
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (Contributor) 61 copies, 1 review
Jean Genet in Tangier (Translator, some editions) 53 copies, 1 review
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (Contributor) 51 copies, 1 review
Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (Contributor) 49 copies, 3 reviews
And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America (Translator) 43 copies, 3 reviews
Dust on Her Tongue (Translator, some editions) 41 copies, 2 reviews
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (Contributor) 40 copies, 1 review
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) 27 copies
The Big Mirror (Translator) 26 copies
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (Contributor) 25 copies, 2 reviews
Fetish: An Anthology (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (Contributor) 21 copies
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (Contributor) 11 copies
Big Table 2 (Contributor) 11 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1949 (Contributor) 4 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1948 (Contributor) 4 copies, 1 review
Aardse betovering: magische verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (Contributor) 3 copies
Open City, Volume 20 (Contributor) 3 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1958 (Contributor) 3 copies
"Bachir Alive and Dead," Antaeus, No. 15, Autumn 1974, pp. 90-98 (Translator) 1 copy
Works by Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, Lee Hoiby, Richard Hundley, John… (Composer) 1 copy
The Best American Short Stories 1950 (Contributor) 1 copy
The storyteller & the fisherman (Translator & Narrator) 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, 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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