- Jane Bowles
Jane Bowles, born Jane Auer (
February 22 , 1917 –May 4 ,1973 ), was an Americanwriter andplaywright .Biography
Born into a
Jewish family inNew York , Jane Bowles spent her childhood inWoodmere, New York , onLong Island . She developedtuberculosis of the knee as a teenager and her mother took her toSwitzerland for treatment, where she attendedboarding school . As a teenager she returned to New York, where she gravitated to the intellectual bohemia ofGreenwich Village and began to experiment in bisexuality.She married writer and composer
Paul Bowles in 1938. In 1943 her novel "Two Serious Ladies " was published. The Bowleses lived in New York until 1947, when Paul moved toTangier ,Morocco ; Jane followed him in 1948. While in Morocco, Jane had an intense and complicatedlesbian relationship with a Moroccan woman named Cherifa.Jane Bowles wrote the play "
In The Summer House ", which was performed on Broadway in 1953 to mixed reviews.Tennessee Williams ,Truman Capote andJohn Ashbery considered her to be one of the finest and most underrated writers of American fiction.Bowles, who suffered from
alcoholism , had astroke in 1957 at age 40. Her health continued to decline, despite various treatments in England and the United States, until she had to be admitted to a clinic inMálaga ,Spain , where she died in 1973.References
* Citation
last = Dillon
first = Millicent
title = A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
place= Berkeley
publisher = University of California Press
year = 1998
isbn = 0520211936External links
* [http://www.paulbowles.org/janebowles.html The Authorized Paul Bowles Web Site] , the official Jane Bowles Web site.
* [http://www.paulbowles.org/janeandpaulbowles.html The Jane and Paul Bowles Society] international academic author society for both Paul and Jane Bowles conducts panel discussions at literary conferences.
*worldcat id|id=lccn-n79-142896
* [http://www.janebowles.com/ Jane Bowles fan site] A fan site.
* [http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/janebowles.html Jane Bowles on the Knitting Circle]
* [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/bowles.jane.html Jane Auer Bowles Collection at the University of Texas]
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