Charles Bowden

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Charles Bowden (born 1945) is an American non-fiction author, journalist, and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico.[1] 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,[2] and writes for other periodicals including Harper's Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and Aperture.

He is the winner of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction,[3] and a 2010 award from United States Artists.[4]

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)
  • Juárez: The Laboratory of 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)(winner of the Border Regional Library Association's Southwest Book Award)
  • Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Nick Schou; preface by Charles Bowden (2006)
  • Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the Future (2009)
  • Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields (2010)
  • Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez (2010); with illustrations by Alice Leora Briggs
  • Dead When I Got Here (2014); in collaboration with Mark Aitken

References

  1. ↑ http://www.lannan.org/bios/charles-bowden
  2. ↑ http://motherjones.com/authors/charles-bowden
  3. ↑ http://www.lannan.org/bios/charles-bowden
  4. ↑ United States Artists Official Website

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