Virginia Spencer Carr holds the Chair in English at Georgia State University. She is the author of acclaimed biographies of Carson McCullers, The Lonely Hunter (Doubleday, 1975), and John Dos Passos, Doss Passos: A Life (Doubleday, 1984). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in Atlanta USA.
"Carr deeply mines Bowles' childhood and early years as a spokesman for non-Western music; her account of his initial success as a novelist ("The Sheltering Sky", inspired by Jane's writing) moves blithely and is chock-full of encounters with famous musicians and belletrists. . . Nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, very much the way Bowles would have wanted it."--"Kirkus Reviews"
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