Charles Bowden

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Charles Bowden (born 1945) is a non-fiction American author, journalist, and essayist based in Tucson, Arizona. He is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and often writes about the American Southwest. He is a contributing editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazine, and also writes for other magazines such as Harper’s, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and Aperture. Winner of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. Despite his stature, the author was taken to task by more than 2000 North Dakotans for his January 2008 article in National Geographic, entitled " "The Emptied Prairie". Gov. John Hoeven is working on a response, and hopes to convince editor-in-chief Chris Johns to run a second piece that balances the damage done by the dismal portrayal of abandoned towns. According to the Fargo Forum, "Residents assailed the venerable publication for 'lazy journalism,' 'babbling of a delusional mind' and 'gross misrepresentations.' "

[edit] Selected works

  • The Impact of Energy Development on Water Resources in Arid Lands: Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography (Tucson: University of Arizona, Office of Arid Lands Studies, 1975)
  • Killing the Hidden Waters (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977)
  • Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big City Life / by Charles Bowden and Lew Kreinberg; photographs by Richard Younker; foreword by William Appleman Williams (Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1981)
  • Blue Desert (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986)
  • Frog Mountain Blues photographs by Jack W. Dykinga. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987)
  • Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions (1988) with Michael Binstein
  • Mezcal (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988)
  • Red Line (New York: Norton, 1989)
  • Desierto: Memories of the Future (1991)
  • The Sonoran Desert / photographs by Jack W. Dykinga; text by Charles Bowden. (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1992)
  • The Secret Forest / text by Charles Bowden; photographs by Jack W. Dykinga; introduction by Paul S. Martin (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993)
  • Seasons of the Coyote: the Legend and Lore of an American Icon / essays by Charles Bowden et al. (San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins West, 1994)
  • Frog Mountain Blues ; photographs by Jack W. Dykinga; with a new afterword by the author (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994)
  • Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America (1995)
  • Chihuahua: Pictures From the Edge / photographs by Virgil Hancock; essay by Charles Bowden (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996)
  • Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau / photographs by Jack W. Dykinga; text by Charles Bowden (New York: Abrams, 1996)
  • The Sierra Pinacate / Julian D. Hayden; photographs by Jack Dykinga; with essays by Charles Bowden & Bernard L. Fontana (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998)
  • Juarez: The Laboratory for our Future, preface by Noam Chomsky; afterword by Eduardo Galeano (1998)
  • Torch Song (essay) 1999
  • Paul Dickerson, 1961-1997 (essay by Charles Bowden; New York: American Fine Art Co., 2000)
  • Eugene Richards (New York, NY: Phaidon, 2001)
  • Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family (2002)
  • Blues for Cannibals (2002)
  • Killing the Hidden Waters [with a new introduction by the author] (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003)
  • A Shadow in the City : Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior (2005)
  • Inferno (photographs by Michael P. Berman; Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006)
  • Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Nick Schou; preface by Charles Bowden (2006)

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