Bowles, Paul Frederic 30.dec.1910-18.nov.1999 USA NY Long Island, Jamaica - Morocco, Tangier
pianist, organist, novelist, 1929-1930 studied at the University of Virginia, 1930-1932 studied composition with Aaron Copland in New York and Berlin, 1933-1934 with Nadia Boulanger and Virgil Thomson in Paris, 1941 received a Guggenheim fellowship, 1959 Rockefeller grant, 1942-1945 music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, traveled and lived in Spain, North Africa, the Antilles, South and Central America studying and collecting folk music, 1947 moved to Tangier and became more active as writer, 1973-1976 residing at 2117 Tanger Socco Tangier Morocco ; son of dentist Claude Dietz Bowles (Wisconsin, Waukesha 24.mar.1878-15.jun.1966 Florida, St Petersburg) and Rena Frances Winnewisser (Vermont, Bellows Falls 2.oct.1884-15.jun.1966 Florida, St Petersburg) ; 21.feb.1938 he married writer Jane Auer (New York City 22.feb.1917-4.may.1973 Spain, Malaga), each developing intimate relationships with friends of their own sex