Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles was an American composer, author, and translator who became closely tied to Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived until his death in 1999. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and his first novel, The Sheltering Sky (1949), is set in French North Africa. His other fiction includes Let It Come Down, about a New York bank teller who unravels in Tangier, The Spider's House, and the short-story collection The Delicate Prey.