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Jane Bowles ( / boʊls /; born Jane Sydney Auer; February 22, 1917 – May 4, 1973) was an American writer and playwright. Early life. Born into a Jewish family in New York City on February 22, 1917, to Sydney Auer (father) and Claire Stajer (mother), Jane Bowles spent her childhood in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island.
Jane Bowles (born Feb. 22, 1917, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died May 4, 1973, Malaga, Spain) was an American author whose small body of highly individualistic work enjoyed an underground reputation even when it was no longer in print.
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Born Jane Sydney Auer, Jane Bowles's total body of work consists of one novel, one play, and six short stories. Yet John Ashbery said of her: "It is to be hoped that she will be recognized for what she is: one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language."
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Apr 21, 2017 · Among its regulars was one Jane Auer Bowles, an extravagant woman of elfin physique who, by the end of her days, had taken to wearing a conspicuous wig.
Jane Bowles (1917-1973) wrote only one novel, one play, and seven short stories in her lifetime, but her impact on American literature is significant. Both Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams cited her as influences, and her surprising, spiky surreal writing style anticipated a changing literary landscape.
Jane Bowles (1917-1973) was a bisexual, Jewish, and disabled writer who lived in Morocco with her husband Paul Bowles. She wrote novels, plays, and short stories that explored cultural and psychological difference, humor, and tragedy.
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Jane Bowles was born in New York in 1917 and died in Spain, in 1973, in a convent hospital. She wrote Two Serious Ladies (published 1943) when she was only twenty-five, a novel celebrated by writers in her own time, and exemplary of late modernist fiction.
