num_pages: 476
description: Tennessee Williams called Jane Bowles "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters." John Ashbery said she was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language," consistently producing "the surprise that is the one essential ingredient of great art." Here, available again, is the only biography of this powerful writer.
language: English
title: A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
titlecomplete: A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
genres: Literature, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 194
publisher: University of California Press