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Jane Bowles, born '''Jane Auer''' ( February 22 , 1917 – May 4 , 1973 ) was an American Writer and Playwright . Born into a Jewish family in New York , Jane Bowles spent her childhood in Woodmere, Long Island. She developed Tuberculosis of the knee as a teenager and her mother took her for treatment in Switzerland, where she attended Boarding School . After she returned to New York where she gravitated to the intellectual bohemia of Greenwich Village as a teenager and began to sexually experiment with people of both sexes. She married writer and composer Paul Bowles in 1938. In 1943 her novel '' Two Serious Ladies '' was published. The Bowleses lived mostly in New York until 1948, when she moved to Tangier , Morocco , to be with her husband (who had moved there in late 1947). She also wrote the play '' In The Summer House '', which was performed on Broadway in 1953 to mixed reviews. Tennessee Williams and John Ashbery considered Jane Bowles one of the finest and most underrated writers of American fiction. A heavy drinker, Jane Bowles suffered a Stroke at age 40 in 1957. Her health continued to decline, despite various treatments in England and the United States, until she had to be admitted to a hospital in Málaga , Spain , where she died in 1973. EXTERNAL LINKS
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