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What was one of Paul Bowles's achievements?
Gore Vidal ranked the short stories as "among the best ever written by an American".
What is another example of his achievement?
In 1991 Paul Bowles was awarded the annual Rea Award for the Short Story.
What other awards he got?
The Library of America published Bowles' works in 2002.
(It prepares scholarly editions of American literary classics and keeps them permanently in print..
What is his another achievement?
Critics have described his music, in contrast, "as full of light as the fiction [is] of dark...almost as if the composer were a totally different person from the writer..

Question: How is his legacy assessed?
Self-contained rewrite: How Paul Bowles' legacy assessed?