A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
"A compassionate account of Jane Bowles's life and an engrossing  history  of her milieu. Dillon seems to have tracked down just about everyone who  knew  Paul and Jane . . . Ned Rorem, Edwin Denby, Tennessee Williams, Peggy  Guggenheim, Dione Lewis, and scores of others contribute richly to the  tapestry.  Paul [Bowles] supported Dillon's effort, and his commentary is  especially  incisive."  --Laurie Stone, Village Voice"A thorough biography of Jane Bowles, a book that never cheaply  psychoanalyzes its subject but rather presents the woman and her work  with  sensitivity and admiration. . . . Grim as [Jane Bowles's] personal story  may be,  the luminous pages she left behind comprise some of the best American  fiction we  have. She is far more genuine and original than many other more  celebrated  writers. Among American women writers she must rank in the small, select  company  of Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Willa Cather, and Jean Stafford."  --Edmund  White, Chicago Tribune