Though he began his creative career as a composer of exceptional promise, American-born Paul Bowles (1910–1999) ultimately devoted his energies to writing. After moving permanently to Tangiers in the late 1940s, Bowles produced a distinctive body of literary work, including a wealth of poetry and short stories distinguished by the author’s incisive powers of observation. Bowles’s best known work, the 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky, has come to be recognized as a classic of modern literature. Two ALS, 1986, one on a previously unused 1912 picture postcard, to Bob Sharrard of City Lights Books in San Francisco, sending thanks for a recording, mentioning reversion of “rights to four of Mrabet’s books” and sales of Mrabet’s drawings, and touching on other artistic, literary, and business matters. Accompanied by the original handwritten mailing envelopes. In fine condition. R&R COA.
