Le Phaéton Hypocrite, 1935-36. This was Jane Bowles's first work; an unpublished novel written in
French. (manuscript lost)

Two Serious Ladies. New York: Alfred Knopf, Inc., 1943; (London: Peter Owen, 1997, 2003; London: Penguin, 2000). French edition: Deux Dames sérieuses, translated from the English by Jean Autret (Gallimard, 1969)  (novel)

"A Guatemalan Idyll", Cross Section, edited by Edwin Seaver, 1944. (short story)

"A Day in the Open", Cross Section, edited by Edwin Seaver, 1945. (short story)

"Plain Pleasures", Harper's Bazaar, February 1946. (short story)

"In the Summer House", (Act I), Harper's Bazaar, April 1947. (play)

"Camp Cataract", Harper's Bazaar, September 1949. (short story)

"East Side: North Africa", Mademoiselle, April 1951: 134+. (short story)

In the Summer House, Best Plays of 1953-1954, edited by Louis Kronenberger, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1954. ("In the Summer House was presented at the Hedgerow Theater in Moylan, Pennsylvania in 1951, directed by Jasper Deeter, and again in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In New York City the play was produced by Oliver Smith with music composed by Paul Bowles; the performances were from December 29, 1953 through February 13, 1954.)

In the Summer House, New York: Random House, 1954. (play)

"At the Jumping Bean", an unfinished play Jane Bowles began writing during her 1955 trip to Ceylon. Paul Bowles "found it in with her notebooks after her death." 12 pages. (unpublished play)

"A Stick of Green Candy", completed 1949; published in Vogue magazine, February 15, 1957 (short story)

Two Serious Ladies. London: Peter Owen, 1965; paperback edition, 2003 (novel)

Plain Pleasures. London: Peter Owen, 1966; paperback edition, 2004 (short-story collection)

The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966)

"A Quarreling Pair", a puppet play performed in 1945. (Mademoiselle, December 1966, p. 116)

"The Courtship of Janet Murphy" (Antaeus, Spring 1972)

"Emmy Moore's Journal", 1973 (story written shortly before her death) (New York: The Paris  Review, Issue 56, Spring 1973)

Going to Massachusetts, 1973 (unfinished novel)

Feminine Wiles. Introduction written by Tennessee Williams. (Stories and sketches include: "Andrew", "Emmy Moore's Journal", "Going to Massachusetts", "Curls and a quiet country place" and "At the Jumping Bean" (a play) (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976)

"Two Scenes" (Antaeus, 1977; The Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff and Shannon Ravenel, Houghton Mifflin, 1978)

"Three Scenes" (Antaeus, Autumn, 1977)

My Sister's Hand in Mine. Introduction written by Truman Capote. (New York: The Ecco Press, 1978, 1985); My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles, with a preface by Joy Williams and the introduction by Truman Capote (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005) [Contains: Two Serious Ladies, In the Summer House, "Plain Pleasures", "Plain Pleasures", "Everything is Nice", "A Guatemalan Idyll", "Camp Cataract", "A Day in the Open", "A Quarreling Pair", "A Stick of Green Candy". Other stories by Jane Bowles include: "Andrew", "Emmy Moore's Journal" and "Going to Massachusetts". From Jane's notebooks: "The Iron Table", "Lila and Frank", and "Friday".

The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (London: Peter Owen Ltd., 1984)

Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970, edited by Millicent Dillon (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985)

"Señorita Córdoba", edited by Millicent Dillon and Paul Bowles (Berkeley, California: The Threepenny Review, VI:1, Spring 1985)

"A Day in the Open", You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe, edited by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard (HarperPerennial Library, October 1994; The Granta Book of the American Short Story, edited by Richard Ford (Penguin / Granta October 1998)

Everything is Nice: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (New York: Random House, 1989; London: Virago Press, 1989)

goNza magilla: Ein Leben in Briefen. (the letters of Jane Bowles; in German). Bonn, Germany:
Sans Soleil, 1997

Jane & Paul Bowles, Lettres: 1946-1970, translated from English into French by Elisabeth Peellaert, with a preface by Michel Bulteau (Paris: Hachette Littératures, 2005)

REFERENCES

(Alphabetical by Author)

Carolyn J. Allen, "The Narrative Erotics of Two Serious Ladies"

Mark T. Bassett, "Imagination, Control and Betrayal in Jane Bowles's 'A Stick of Green Candy'"
Studies in Short Fiction, 24:1 (1987): 25-29

Stephen Benz, "'The Americans Stick Pretty Much in Their Own Quarter': Jane Bowles and Central America"

Gena Dagel Caponi, "The Unfinished Jane Bowles"

Truman Capote, "Truman Capote Introduces Jane Bowles" (Mademoiselle, December 1966, 115)

Peter G. Christensen, "Family Dynamics in Jane Bowles's In the Summer House"

Millicent Dillon, "Jane Bowles: Experiment as Character." Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989): 140-147

Millicent Dillon, "Keeper of the Flame". (The New Yorker January 27, 1997: 27-28)

Millicent Dillon, You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 1998)

Stacey d'Erasmo, "The Exiled Heart". Out magazine (New York: May 1999): 69-73, 118, 120

Kathy Justice Gentile, "'The Dreaded Voyage Into the World': Jane Bowles and her Serious  Ladies" (Studies in American Fiction, Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 1994)

Charlette Goodman, "Mommy Dearest: Mothers and Daughters in Jane Bowles's In the Summer House and Other Plays by Contemporary Women Writers"

Francine DuPlessix Gray, “Jane Bowles Reconsidered” (The New York Times, May 19, 1978)

William A. Henry III,  A review of "In the Summer House" (Time magazine, August 16, 1993, p. 61)

Allen Hibbard, "Toward a Postmodern Aesthetic: Indeterminacy, Instability, and Inconclusiveness
in Out in the World"

John Hopkins, The Tangier Diaries, 1962-1979 (San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1998)

Brenda Knight, "Jane Bowles: A Life at the End of the World." Women of the Beat Generation: The
Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution. New York: Conan Press, 1998. 18-27

Marcy Jane Knopf, "Bi-nary Bi-Sexuality: Jane Bowles' Two Serious Ladies." Representing Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire. Donald E. Hall and Maria Pramaggiore, editors (New York University Press, 1996. 142-164)

Andrew M. Lakritz, "Jane Bowles's Other World." Old Maids to Radical Spinsters: Unmarried Women in the Twentieth Century Novel. Laura L. Doan, editor (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. 213-214)

Robert E. Lougy, "The World and Art of Jane Bowles (1917-1973)" (CEA Critic. 49: 2-4 (1986-1987): 157-173)

Robert E. Lougy, "'Some Fun in the Mud': Decrepitude and Salvation in the World of Jane Bowles"

John Maier, "Exchanging Strangeness: Fiction of Jane Bowles and Leila Abouzeid." Mirrors on the Maghrib: Critical Reflections on Paul and Jane Bowles and Other American Writers in Morocco. edited by R. Kevin Lacey and Francis Poole (Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1996. 151-86)

John Maier, "Jane Bowles and the Semi-Oriental Woman." A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles, edited by Jennie Skerl (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997: 83-101)

Jane Miller, "Cataract: Appreciating Jane Bowles", (HOW(ever) Vol. 5, No. 1, October, 1988)

Michelle Pearce, "Don’t Tell Mother", (American Theater, 10:9, 1993, p. 11)

Carol Shloss, "Jane Bowles in Uninhabitable Places: Writing on Cultural Boundaries"

Jennie Skerl, "Sallies into the Outside World: A Literary History of Jane Bowles" A Tawdry Place of Salvation (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997: 1-18)

Jennie Skerl, A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles (Carbondale and Edwardsville,
Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997)

Jennie Skerl, "The Legend of Jane Bowles: Stories of the Female Avant-Garde" (Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 1999 Fall; 41, 3: 262-79)

Claude Nathalie Thomas, "On Translating Paul (and Jane and Mrabet)" (Journal of Modern Literature, Volume 23, Number 1, Fall 1999, pp. 35-43)

Sherill Tippins, February House (Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005)

Edith H. Walton, “Fantastic Duo (Review of Two Serious Ladies)”, The New York Times, May 9,  1943

Regina Weinreich, "Sister Act: A Reading of Jane Bowles's Puppet Play"

BIOGRAPHIES

Millicent Dillon,  A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles.  New York: Holt, Rinehard and Winston, 1981 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998)

Jens Rosteck, Jane und Paul Bowles: Leben ohne anzuhalten, (München: Goldman Verlag, September 2005) [biography in German)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lawrence Shifreen,  Jane Bowles: A Bibliography.  College Park, Maryland: Sun & Moon Press, 1989.

JANE BOWLES COLLECTIONS, ARCHIVES, LETTERS, PAPERS, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

 
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center [HRC], Jane Auer Bowles Collection, University of Texas at Austin

Millicent Dillon Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center [HRC], University of Texas at Austin

University of Delaware Library, Special Collections Department, Paul Bowles Collection. Newark, Delaware

Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur, Switzerland

JANE BOWLES RESOURCES AND LINKS

Biography of Jane Bowles by Millicent Dillon

The Jane and Paul Bowles Society (international author society for the Jane & Paul Bowles)

Photographs of Jane Bowles, Friends and Associates

Recommended Resources and Links for Jane Bowles and Paul Bowles

Millicent Dillon Papers at The Harry Ransom Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Books by and about Jane Bowles