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Patrick Lindsay Bowles was born and raised in Texas. After training initially as a missionary
in languages and theology, he pursued graduate studies at Jesuit-run Marquette University,
where he was awarded two fellowships, including one that took him to Paris. Disinherited by
his family, he has lived over half his life in France, where his human rights activities on
behalf of refugees and children have led to deportation proceedings against him on more
than one occasion, and earned him friends from around the world. Former Secretary General
of the Euro-Mediterranean Allies Foundation for Peace and Democracy, Patrick Lindsay
Bowles has worked as both a paid and a pro bono consultant for various international
organizations, including UNESCO and the Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de
l'Homme.
An Oxford-trained linguist, he has taught or been a speaker at Oxford, the University of Paris
and other prestigious institutions such as the Ecole Polytechnique. He has held fellowships
from both national and international foundations, written for The Times Literary Supplement
and The Economist, among other publications, and had several of his essays anthologized in
American university textbooks. His art criticism has been quoted in Christie's auction
catalogues.
Patrick Lindsay Bowles has a very long-standing interest in human rights: at the age of 2, he
was the poster child of the U.S. Marine Corps' Toys for Tots campaign for underprivileged
children, a cause he still actively supports. At 12, he received an award recognizing his
leadership qualities and service to others from the hands of Dr. W.A. Criswell, leader of what
was then America's largest church. At 16, his address on human rights won a local Veterans
of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy Award. A victim of child abuse, Patrick Lindsay Bowles
boasts a lifelong history of effective counter-aggression towards abusers of power. Writes
journalist Oriana Shehi : “Many victims of political persecution in their own countries,
whether Albanian Muslims such as myself, Vietnamese mountain people or Romanian Jews,
have benefited in France from the active, effective and always quiet generosity of Patrick
Lindsay Bowles.” "I am not ashamed to say that your article in The Times brought tears to my
eyes," wrote Mrs. Bella Cohen when Bowles defended her and her husband Albert Cohen
against virtually the entire European press. Patrick Lindsay Bowles is currently mounting a
lawsuit against France in the European Court of Human Rights for the crimes of racism and
torture.
Patrick Lindsay Bowles is a member of both the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris
and of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France. His first essay in French, written when
still a student, was printed as part of a select four-man Quinzaine Littéraire Round Table on
Maurice Blanchot and the Holocaust, chaired by Maurice Nadeau, former co-editor (with
Albert Camus) of Combat. His book on the English, written directly in French and published
by Flammarion, was unanimously hailed by the French press, who saw in Patrick Lindsay
Bowles a "Don Quixote-like figure" as well as a "screamingly funny" writer. Elle called him "an
unbelievable cocktail of Dallas and Shakespeare! An American from Texas, but more British
than the Queen Mother, Patrick Lindsay Bowles writes the way he goes after his victims--with
savage wit." "One savors Patrick Lindsay Bowles," trumpeted one Belgian daily, "the way one
does a fine Scotch whisky. Honing in on his targets, his finely-crafted prose dripping with
irony, but devoid of low blows, Patrick Lindsay Bowles makes one impertinent, common
sense-filled remark after another. The author has a brilliant style that the most vicious
Parisian gossip columnists or the toniest English critics wouldn't mind calling their own. But
he has the gift of blending two very different mind-sets, which makes it hugely enjoyable for
us." "Patrick Lindsay Bowles,” wrote Le Monde, “is the very incarnation of the upper class
Power English-speaker he describes in his book," {and} "proves that true class comes
neither from money nor a career."
Patrick Lindsay Bowles is a keen swimmer, musician (he learned to play guitar from an 11-
year-old neighbor named Stevie Ray Vaughan) and, above all, father (he has completed the
Yale University “Fatherhood” course taught by Professor Kyle Pruett of the Department of
Clinical Psychiatry).
An excerpt from his book-length memoir, “In Texas”, appears in the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of
The Texas Review. His forthcoming book Santé publique, mensonges d’état (Public Health,
State Lies) investigates governmental cover-ups of public health scandals. Already the
subject of such controversy that President Sarkozy's personal lawyer, Michele Cahen, has
referred to the pre-publication version of the book as a "best-seller", Santé publique,
mensonges d’état will appear as soon as legal constraints and government threats have
dissipated.
in languages and theology, he pursued graduate studies at Jesuit-run Marquette University,
where he was awarded two fellowships, including one that took him to Paris. Disinherited by
his family, he has lived over half his life in France, where his human rights activities on
behalf of refugees and children have led to deportation proceedings against him on more
than one occasion, and earned him friends from around the world. Former Secretary General
of the Euro-Mediterranean Allies Foundation for Peace and Democracy, Patrick Lindsay
Bowles has worked as both a paid and a pro bono consultant for various international
organizations, including UNESCO and the Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de
l'Homme.
An Oxford-trained linguist, he has taught or been a speaker at Oxford, the University of Paris
and other prestigious institutions such as the Ecole Polytechnique. He has held fellowships
from both national and international foundations, written for The Times Literary Supplement
and The Economist, among other publications, and had several of his essays anthologized in
American university textbooks. His art criticism has been quoted in Christie's auction
catalogues.
Patrick Lindsay Bowles has a very long-standing interest in human rights: at the age of 2, he
was the poster child of the U.S. Marine Corps' Toys for Tots campaign for underprivileged
children, a cause he still actively supports. At 12, he received an award recognizing his
leadership qualities and service to others from the hands of Dr. W.A. Criswell, leader of what
was then America's largest church. At 16, his address on human rights won a local Veterans
of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy Award. A victim of child abuse, Patrick Lindsay Bowles
boasts a lifelong history of effective counter-aggression towards abusers of power. Writes
journalist Oriana Shehi : “Many victims of political persecution in their own countries,
whether Albanian Muslims such as myself, Vietnamese mountain people or Romanian Jews,
have benefited in France from the active, effective and always quiet generosity of Patrick
Lindsay Bowles.” "I am not ashamed to say that your article in The Times brought tears to my
eyes," wrote Mrs. Bella Cohen when Bowles defended her and her husband Albert Cohen
against virtually the entire European press. Patrick Lindsay Bowles is currently mounting a
lawsuit against France in the European Court of Human Rights for the crimes of racism and
torture.
Patrick Lindsay Bowles is a member of both the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris
and of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France. His first essay in French, written when
still a student, was printed as part of a select four-man Quinzaine Littéraire Round Table on
Maurice Blanchot and the Holocaust, chaired by Maurice Nadeau, former co-editor (with
Albert Camus) of Combat. His book on the English, written directly in French and published
by Flammarion, was unanimously hailed by the French press, who saw in Patrick Lindsay
Bowles a "Don Quixote-like figure" as well as a "screamingly funny" writer. Elle called him "an
unbelievable cocktail of Dallas and Shakespeare! An American from Texas, but more British
than the Queen Mother, Patrick Lindsay Bowles writes the way he goes after his victims--with
savage wit." "One savors Patrick Lindsay Bowles," trumpeted one Belgian daily, "the way one
does a fine Scotch whisky. Honing in on his targets, his finely-crafted prose dripping with
irony, but devoid of low blows, Patrick Lindsay Bowles makes one impertinent, common
sense-filled remark after another. The author has a brilliant style that the most vicious
Parisian gossip columnists or the toniest English critics wouldn't mind calling their own. But
he has the gift of blending two very different mind-sets, which makes it hugely enjoyable for
us." "Patrick Lindsay Bowles,” wrote Le Monde, “is the very incarnation of the upper class
Power English-speaker he describes in his book," {and} "proves that true class comes
neither from money nor a career."
Patrick Lindsay Bowles is a keen swimmer, musician (he learned to play guitar from an 11-
year-old neighbor named Stevie Ray Vaughan) and, above all, father (he has completed the
Yale University “Fatherhood” course taught by Professor Kyle Pruett of the Department of
Clinical Psychiatry).
An excerpt from his book-length memoir, “In Texas”, appears in the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of
The Texas Review. His forthcoming book Santé publique, mensonges d’état (Public Health,
State Lies) investigates governmental cover-ups of public health scandals. Already the
subject of such controversy that President Sarkozy's personal lawyer, Michele Cahen, has
referred to the pre-publication version of the book as a "best-seller", Santé publique,
mensonges d’état will appear as soon as legal constraints and government threats have
dissipated.
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