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Jane Bowles was born on 22 February, 1917 in New York City, is an American writer and playwright. Discover Jane Bowles's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

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Occupation Writer, playwright
Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 22 February, 1917
Birthday 22 February
Birthplace New York City
Date of death 4 May, 1973
Died Place Málaga, Spain
Nationality American

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1917

Jane Bowles (born Jane Sydney Auer; February 22, 1917 – May 4, 1973) was an American writer and playwright.

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.

She had had a bad knee from birth, which was later broken from falling off a horse when she was a teenager.

After knee surgery, she developed tuberculous arthritis, and her mother took her to Switzerland for treatment, where she attended boarding school.

She also attended Julia Richmond High School in New York and the Stoneleigh School for Girls in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

At this point in her life, she developed a passion for literature coupled with insecurities.

She developed phobias related to dogs, sharks, mountains, jungles, and elevators as well as fears of being burned alive.

1930

During the mid-1930s she returned to New York, where she gravitated to the intellectual bohemia of Greenwich Village.

1937

In 1937, she and Paul Bowles were introduced to each other by Erika Mann, 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.

The marriage was a sexual marriage for about a year and a half.

Thereafter, Jane and Paul Were platonic companions.

They both were bisexual, and mainly preferred to have sex outside of their marriage.

After this, Jane and Paul Went to Mexico, where Jane later met Helvetia Perkins, who became her lover.

1938

She married the composer and writer Paul Bowles in 1938.

The location of the honeymoon inspired the setting for her novel Two Serious Ladies.

Bowles had a rich love life.

1943

In 1943, her novel Two Serious Ladies was published.

1947

The Bowleses lived in New York until 1947, when Paul moved to Tangier, Morocco; Jane followed him in 1948.

While in Morocco, Jane had an intense, complicated relationship with a Moroccan woman named Cherifa.

She also had a close relationship with the torch singer Libby Holman.

Holman was attracted to both Jane and Paul, but Paul did not reciprocate.

1951

It was first performed in 1951 in the Hedgerow Theater in Moylan, Pennsylvania.

1953

Jane Bowles wrote the play In the Summer House, performed on Broadway in 1953 to mixed reviews.

Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and John Ashbery all highly praised her work.

In the Summer House was her only full-length play.

The play opened on Broadway at the Playhouse Theatre on December 29, 1953, with music by Paul Bowles, where it ran for two months to mixed reviews and low attendance.

1957

Bowles, who was an alcoholic, suffered a stroke in 1957 at age 40.

1963

Around 1963, the play was revived.

1993

The play was revived again in 1993 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater with incidental music by Philip Glass.

1994

This revival received nominations for the 1994 Drama Desk Awards for outstanding director of a play, set design, and supporting actress (JoAnne Akalaitis, George Tsypin, and Frances Conroy, respectively).

The overarching plot is the comparison of an overbearing mother and gentle daughter and a gentle mother and an overbearing daughter.

The plot is driven by character interaction and not action.

It begins with a monolog by Ms. Gertude Eastman Cuevas, an isolated widow from Southern California who marries a rich Mexican (with a singing and dancing comrade), who is oppressive towards her daughter.

The other widow is Ms. Constable and her challenging daughter.

The daughters are both unstable.

Miss Cuevas has a suitor which makes the mother feel like she needs to be more overbearing.

The first act closes on Ms. Cuevas and her new husband reading newspaper silently.

The second act occurs in a restaurant named The Lobster Bowl and uses intensive food imagery.

Bowles's complex relationship with her mother could have been an inspiration for the plot.