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A marriage of literary greats
Paul and Jane Bowles' unorthodox union was unbreakable
By Liz Highleyman Past Out
Queer writers Paul and Jane Bowles became
the hub of a bohemian circle in Tangier,
Morocco, in the 1950s. Looking back on their
unconventional marriage, Paul once said, "We
played everything by ear. Each one did what he
pleased."
Paul Frederic Bowles was born on Dec. 30,
1910, to a wealthy family in New York City. He
dropped out of college during bis first year and
left for Paris, embarking on a lifetime of travel
that afforded him opportunities to meet luminar-
ies such as Jean Cocteau, Christopher Isherwood,
Gertrude Stein and bis mentor, gay composer
Aaron Copland.
Paul met Jane Auer at a party in New York
City in 1937. Jane was born on Feb. 22,1917, to
a middle-class Jewish family. In her late teens,
she frequented gay and lesbian bars in
Greenwich Village and openly pursued affairs
with women (and a few men). Paul and Jane mar-
ried on Feb. 21,1938.
For a time, they lived on Middagh Street in
Brooklyn, in a communal house whose other
denizens included poet W.H. Auden, author
Carson McCullers, composer Benjamin Britten
and his lover, Peter Pears. They later lived in a
brownstone in Manhattan's West Village, where
Paul occupied the top floor and Jane lived two
floors down with her lover, Flelvetia Perkins.
Perkins later moved to a farmhouse near
Montpelier, Vt., where Jane wrote her sole novel,
"Two Serious Ladies" (1943).
In 1947, Paul moved to Tangier, followed a
year later by Jane. By the 1950s, Tangier had
become a haven for western adventurers, and the
couple became the center of a community of
expatriates and visitors, including Beat writers
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William
Burroughs.
Inspired by Jane's novel, Paul wrote his best-
known work, "The Sheltering Sky" (1949), and
went on to write several novels, short stories and
travel books. Although Jane's friend Tennessee
Williams described her as "the most important
writer of prose fiction in modern American let-
ters," Jane's literary output was small. In the
1950s, she developed a serious case of writer's
block, exacerbated by her addiction to alcohol
and drugs.
Biographer Millicent Dillon describes Paul
and Jane Bowles' marriage as "one of deep devo-
tion, but not one of sexuality." Although Paul
recalled that he and Jane enjoyed "some very
SCRIBES, SPOUSES: The Bowles' marriage was described
as "one of deep devotion, but not one of sexuality.'
good sex together," Jane was always more
attracted to women. In Tangier, she fell in love
with a young Moroccan peasant woman named
Cherifa. Smitten. Jane gave Cherifa money and a
house, but the object of her affection remained
aloof. For his part, Paul typically engaged in
brief, often anonymous, gay liaisons. He was
always circumspect about his private life;
Burroughs joked that Paul's 1972 autobiography,
"Without Stopping," should have been called
"Without Telling."
In the spring of 1957, at age 39, Jane suffered
a stroke. Her physical and mental condition dete-
riorated until Paul was forced to commit her to a
psychiatric hospital in Malaga, Spain, where she
died on May 4, 1973. In his 80s, Paul's eyesight
faded and he could no longer write. He died of
heart failure in Tangier on Nov. 18, 1999.
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and politics.
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