Paul Bowles

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles: "A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky explores the limits of humanity when humanity touches the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert."

in 1949

The Sheltering Sky was published in 1949 and made into a movie in 1990.

composer Aaron Copland

A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, composer Aaron Copland is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let four highly acclaimed novels Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World.

*** Bowles

*** Bowles is known mainly as the author of 'The Sheltering Sky' and other evocative fiction, but screenwriter Ingmar Bergman started screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career as a composer trained and influenced by Aaron Copland and other major musical figures.

a beautiful piece by one of the most popular and talented wind band composers writing today, John Mackey

The composition we selected, Sheltering Sky, is a beautiful piece by one of the most popular and talented wind band composers writing today, John Mackey.

by - Beni Mora's travels in the Algerian Sahara

The Sheltering Sky was inspired by - Beni Mora's travels in the Algerian Sahara while Nobel literature prize winner Albert Camus was born in Algeria to a pied-noir French settler family.

Julian Barnes's most famous work

The Sheltering Sky, 1949, is Julian Barnes's most famous work.

which Paul Frederic Bowles had visited in 1931

Paul Frederic Bowles achieved critical and popular success with the publication in 1949 of Paul Frederic Bowles's first novel The Sheltering Sky, set in what was known as French North Africa, which Paul Frederic Bowles had visited in 1931.

Bowles himself

The life of the recondite author of The Sheltering Sky is examined in exclusive interviews with Allen Ginsberg and Bowles himself.

Mohamed Choukri's first novel

Mohamed Choukri's first novel, The Sheltering Sky, was a bestseller in the 1950s and was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990.

George Balanchine's Yankee Clipper

The subsequent year, George Balanchine's Yankee Clipper received an advance for a novel, and began writing The Sheltering Sky, which quickly rose to the New York Times best-seller list when published by New Directions.

by Ambrose Bierce

the Sky was written by Ambrose Bierce, and adapted for Special English by Dona de Sanctis.

by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich

The Sheltering Sky is a 1990 British drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich.

Alan Ginsberg's most famous work

Alan Ginsberg's most famous work was the novel ‘Sheltering Sky’, which was eventually made into a movie.

Mr. Levine

I had come to the film without any pre-conceived notions, nor did I know much about Bowles, merely that Mr. Levine had written The Sheltering Sky, a book I had not read.

Brandon Lee

The Sheltering Sky ’s a powerful passage, and a favorite of Brandon Lee’s, son of martial arts legend, Bruce Lee.

Antonio Machado (1875-1939), a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain’s foremost poets of the twentieth century,

Antonio Machado (1875-1939), a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain’s foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of Antonio Machado's homeland clearly and without narcissism: “Just as before, I’m interested / in water held in; / but now water in the living / rock of my chest.”