Paul Bowles(1910-1999)
- Writer
- Composer
- Actor
Composer and author, educated at the University of Virginia, he studied
with Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson, and received Guggenheim and
Rockefeller grants. Paul Bowles joined ASCAP in 1945, and he researched
folk music in Spain, North Africa, the Antilles, and South and Central
America. He lived 52 years in Tangier, Morocco as an expatriate writer.
Bowles was married to the writer and playwright Jane Bowles.