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Bowers, Faubion, 1917-1999

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79122456

Variants

Bawāzu, Fōbian, 1917-1999

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n79122456

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Birth Date
Death Date
Field of Activity
Translating and interpreting
Theater
Japanese literature
Biography

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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Bowers, Faubion, 1917-
Bowers, Faubion, 1917-1999
Faubion Bowers Label from public data source Wikidata

Sources

found: His Japanese theatre, 1952.

found: Kabuki o sukutta otoko, 1998:t.p. (Fōbian Bawāzu [in katakana]; in subtitle) p. 7, etc. (b. 1917; former A.D.C to Gen. MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, 1945-1951; res. in New York City)

found: New York Times, Nov. 22, 1999:p. A29 (Faubion Bowers; d. Nov. 16, 1999 in New York City, age 82)

found: Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich. "Poem of ecstasy" and "Prometheus: poem of fire," 1995:title page (Faubion Bowers; writer of preface and translator)

found: Wikipedia, September 23, 2021(Faubion Bowers (January 29, 1917-November 17, 1999); American academic and writer in the area of Asian Studies, especially Japanese theatre; also author of the first full-length biography of Alexander Scriabin; interpreter for Douglas MacArthur; translator of Albert Champdor's Livre des morts)

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Change Notes

1980-07-17: new
2021-09-24: revised

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