(born Jane Sydney 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 inWoodmere, New York, on Long Island. She developed tuberculous arthritis of the knee as a teenager and her mother took her to Switzerland for treatment, where she attended boarding school. As a teenager she returned to New York, where she gravitated to the intellectual bohemia of Greenwich Village.
She married writer and composer Paul Bowles in 1938 Bowles, who suffered from alcoholism, had a stroke in 1957 at age 40. Her health continued to decline, despite various treatments in England and the United States, until she had to be admitted to a clinic in Málaga, Spain, where she died in 1973.
