Jane Bowles
Jane Auer Bowles was born February 22, 1917, in New York City. She published one novel, “Two Serious Ladies” (1943); one play, IN THE SUMMER HOUSE (1954); and a short-story collection, “Plain Pleasure... Read more
Jane Auer Bowles was born February 22, 1917, in New York City. She published one novel, “Two Serious Ladies” (1943); one play, IN THE SUMMER HOUSE (1954); and a short-story collection, “Plain Pleasures” (1966). “The Collected Works of Jane Bowles” (1966) combined these works in one volume. “My Sister's Hand in Mine” (1978) is an expanded edition of “The Collected Works,” containing an additional six short stories previously published only in various magazines. A posthumously published collection of the short stories and a selection of letters, “Feminine Wiles,” was published in 1976. Additional elements of her work, including some previously unpublished notebook material and letters, were published under the titles of “Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles” (1985) and “Everything Is Nice: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles” (1989). She died in Los Angeles, California, in 1973.