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In 1937, she and Paul Bowles were introduced to each other by Erika Mann, [3] and in the following year (1938), they were married and went on a honeymoon in Central America. She visited lesbian bars while they traveled together in Paris.
Jun 17, 2016 · Jane and Paul Bowles were married in 1938 and stayed together until the day Jane died, and both of them were queer. In this queer couple, we find a deep platonic love that sustained both of these artists throughout their tumultuous lives.
In 1947, Bowles settled in Tangier, at that time in the Tangier International Zone, and his wife Jane Bowles followed in 1948. Except for winters spent in Ceylon during the early 1950s, Tangier was Bowles's home for the remainder of his life.
The strange marriage of Paul and Jane Bowles, two extraordinarily eccentric characters, exemplified the change in mores from the Edwardian to the modern era and anticipated many of the sexual practices that became common after the social revolution of the 1960s.
- Jeffrey Meyers
- 2011
Born in Manhattan in 1917, Jane Bowles married composer and writer Paul Bowles in 1938. Both bisexual, the couple remained together after their sexual relationship ended, giving one another personal and professional support for over thirty-five years.
Paul Bowles got married to author Jane Auer in 1938. The couple did not have any children and according to most accounts, both of them were in relationships with individuals of the same sex. He died due to heart failure on 18 November 1999, in Tangier, Morocco, at the age of 88.
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She married the composer-author Paul Bowles in 1938. They lived in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and the United States, where she began writing her only published novel, Two Serious Ladies (1943).
