{"id":61,"date":"2026-08-03T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/paul-bowles-papers-supplement\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:35:26","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/09\/AliveInTangier_Web_Slider_720x405.jpg\" alt=\"Slider for exhibition featuring title and a photo of Paul Bowles with his parrot, as well as an image of Bowles' typewriter\" class=\"wp-image-302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/09\/AliveInTangier_Web_Slider_720x405.jpg 720w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/09\/AliveInTangier_Web_Slider_720x405-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Paul Bowles (1910\u20131999) was an American writer and composer whose work included fiction, essays, poetry, travel writing, translations, autobiographical writing, and music. He and his wife, the writer and playwright Jane Bowles, traveled extensively before settling in Tangier, Morocco, in the late 1940s. Tangier remained the Bowleses home for most of their lives, and the couple became entwined with the social fabric of the city and its wider environs. A mid-century meeting place for writers, artists, musicians, and other visitors from around the world, as well as a jumping-off point for Paul Bowles&#8217;s relationships and collaborative efforts with native Moroccans, Tangier stood as the nexus for the writer&#8217;s creative efforts for most of his lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Alive in Tangier<\/em> features selections from the newly-discoverable <a href=\"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/static\/purl.php?mss0163s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Bowles papers supplement<\/a>, an extensive collection of the writer&#8217;s archival materials held in the University of Delaware Library&#8217;s Special Collections. The exhibition focuses on Bowles&#8217;s relationships with a wide circle of artists and writers, his associations with Moroccan art and music, his translation work with Moroccan storytellers, and the ways Morocco, and particularly Tangier, are represented in his writing and in the work of those around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/09\/IMG_1355-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/09\/IMG_1355-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/09\/IMG_1355-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/09\/IMG_1355-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/09\/IMG_1355-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alive-in-tangier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/09\/IMG_1355-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-27c6ce6da40f723d8ccfc473b51416dc\" style=\"background-color:#00539f\">This exhibition was curated by Dustin Frohlich, processing and collections management archivist, and Lily Hearn, student assistant in Special Collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bowles (1910\u20131999) was an American writer and composer whose work included fiction, essays, poetry, travel writing, translations, autobiographical writing, and music. 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