Paul Frederic Bowles - 354 / 365 of reading one short story every day.

Paul Frederic Bowles was an American composer, author, and translator. He pursued music in Paris and later on forayed into novel writing.

The Delicate Prey and Other Stories is a collection of stories by Paul Bowles, published in 1950. The stories are set in North Africa and Latin America and show the characters challenged by these foreign settings. These challenges become the plot of most stories. Escape, culture clash, and abuse seem to be main themes.