Paul Bowles: a life

A Few Words Before

Chapter 1. The Early Childhood of Paul Bowles (1910-1918)

Chapter 2. Bowles's Move to a New Neighborhood and His Discovery of the Arts (1917-1927)

Chapter 3. Paul Bowles, a Runaway to Paris (1928-1931)

Chapter 4. Bowles's Return to Europe (1931-1933)

Chapter 5. A Lovesick Bowles in Algeria. Disillusionment, Estrangement, and Success in New York (1933-1936)

Chapter 6. Paul Bowles Meets Jane Auer. They Fall in Love and Marry (1937-1940)

Chapter 7. Paul and Jane in Acapulco, Where They Meet Tennessee Williams (1940-1943)

Chapter 8. Writing Music Reviews, Music for Broadway, Fiction, and Translations (1943-1947)

Chapter 9. Bowles's Departure for Morocco and Return to New York to Compose Music for A Streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke (1947-1948)

Chapter 10. Bowles Returns to the Desert with Jane, and They Renew Their Dedication to Writing (1949-1951)

Chapter 11. Mishaps, Chance, Intervention of Fate, and Jane's Elusive Third Act of In the Summer House (1952-1954)

Chapter 12. Burroughs in Tangier and Bowles's Several Visits to His Island off Ceylon (1954-1959)

Chapter 13. Bowles Records Indigenous Music, Translates, and Survives as Best He Can (1959-1966)

Chapter 14. Six Years of Abject Sadness (1967-1973)

Chapter 15. Without Jane (1973-1999)

Chapter 16. Coda

Additional Acknowledgments

Chronology

Notes

Index