Jane Bowles was born in New York in 1917 and died in Malaga in 1973. She began writing at the age of 15. In 1938 she married the composer and writer Paul Bowles. Along with him, she participated in the intellectual and artistic circle that brought together Richard and Ellen Wright, W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers, among others. She lived in Europe, Central America, and Mexico, settling more or less permanently in Tangier in 1947. Her work was brief, but highly celebrated. He published the novel Two Very Serious Ladies (1943), the play Summer in the Glorieta (1953), the book of short stories Simple Pleasures (1966) and, posthumously, Feminine Wiles (1976), in addition to a series of letters and fragments. Unpublished edited by Paul Bowles and Millicent Dillon, his biographer.