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. And he has reaped other, equally meaningful, rewards of his
engagement. In 2006, following the publication of an excerpt from his memoir,
“In Texas”, in the Fall/Winter issue of The Texas Review and the
announcement of the publication of his book Santé publique, mensonges d’etat,
subsequently suspended, President Sarkozy's personal lawyer, Michele Cahen,
referred to Patrick Lindsay Bowles as "wholly without morals.” In July 2010, his
mother’s obituary mentioned all of her survivors, children and grandchildren, but
one.
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).
He is currently at work on In Texas and a novel, Without Anesthetic.
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. And he has reaped other, equally meaningful, rewards of his
engagement. In 2006, following the publication of an excerpt from his memoir,
“In Texas”, in the Fall/Winter issue of The Texas Review and the
announcement of the publication of his book Santé publique, mensonges d’etat,
subsequently suspended, President Sarkozy's personal lawyer, Michele Cahen,
referred to Patrick Lindsay Bowles as "wholly without morals.” In July 2010, his
mother’s obituary mentioned all of her survivors, children and grandchildren, but
one.
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).
He is currently at work on In Texas and a novel, Without Anesthetic.
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