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Paul Bowles Biography (1910-)
Addresses: Home: 2117 Tanger Socco, Tangier, Morocco; Agent: Ned Leavitt, c/o William Morris Agency, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10019.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- composer, writer
- Birth Details
- December 30, 1910
- Jamaica, New York
Famous Works
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Incidental Music, Theatre
- Debut--Horse Eats Hat, Federal Theatre Project, Maxine Elliott's Theatre, NY, 1936; Dr. Faustus, FTP, Maxine Elliott's, 1937; My Heart's in the Highlands, Guild, NY, 1939; Love's Old Sweet Song, Plymouth, NY, 1940; Twelfth Night, St. James, NY, 1940; Liberty Jones, Shubert, NY, 1941; Watch on the Rhine, Martin Beck, NY, 1941; South Pacific (a play) Cort, NY, 1943; Jacobowsky and the Colonel, Martin Beck, NY, 1944; The Glass Menagerie, Playhouse,NY, 1945; Twilight Bar, Ford's, Baltimore, MD, 1946; On Whitman Avenue, Cort, NY, 1946; Land's End, Playhouse, NY, 1946; Summer and Smoke, Playhouse, NY, 1948; Cyrano de Bergerac, City Center, NY, In the Summer House, Playhouse, NY, 1953; The Glass Menagerie, (revival), City Center, NY, 1956; the song "Heavenly Grass," Orpheus Descending, Martin Beck, NY, 1957; Edwin Booth, 46th Street,NY, 1958; Sweet Bird of Youth, Martin Beck, NY, 1959; The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Morosco, NY, 1963.
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Ballets
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Yankee Clipper, 1937; Pastorelela, 1941; Sentimental Colloquy, 1944; Blue Roses, 1957.
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Operas
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Denmark Vesey, 1937; The Wind Remains, Museum of Modern Art, 1943.
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Films
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Roots in the Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1940; Congo, Belgian Government in exile, 1944.
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Books
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The Sheltering Sky, 1949; The Delicate Prey and Other Stories, 1950; Let It Come Down, 1952; The Spider's House, 1955;Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue, 1963; The Time ofFriendship, 1967; Without Stopping, 1972.
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Plays, Translations
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No Exit, and adaptation, produced at the Biltmore. NY 1946.
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