Protege of Aaron Copland and Virgil Thompson; intimate of Caopte, Stein, Williams and Burroughs; Paul Bowles went from being an enourmously successful composer and bestselling novelist - The Sheltering Sky - to one of the most mysterious cult figures of modern American letters. Since his self-imposed exile to Morocco in the 1950s, Bowles has been surrounded by a mystique that was further deepened by his resolutely taciturn autobiography Without Stopping - renamed Without Telling by William Burroughs.