Paul Bowles



First NamePaul
Last NameBowles
Age88 (age at death)
Date of BirthDecember 30, 1910
Date of DeathNovember 18, 1999
Star SignCapricorn
Occupation CategoryComposer
Music GenreAvant-Garde Music
Music StyleModern Composition, Opera, Classical, Spoken Word, World Fusion, Jazz, Comedy/Spoken
InstrumentComposer
  • Paul Bowles

Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for various theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with the publication in 1949 of his first novel The Sheltering Sky, set in what was known as French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931.


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Filmography

Selected Paul Bowles film and TV show credits:


Acting Credits

1995
Paul Bowles - Halbmond
Erzähler

1990
The Sheltering Sky
Narrator

1957
8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements
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Composer Credits

1998
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
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1994
Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider
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1993
Un américain à Tanger
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1966
CBS Playhouse: The Glass Menagerie
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1949
Roots in the Soil
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1947
Dreams That Money Can Buy
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1945
Congo
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Writer Credits

2012
The Spider's House
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2001
Café de la plage
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2001
Baptism of Solitude: A Tribute to Paul Bowles
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1995
Paul Bowles - Halbmond
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1994
Drug-Taking and the Arts
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1990
The Sheltering Sky
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1981
You Are Not I
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1954
Senso
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