Charles Bowden is an American non-fiction author, journalist, and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico

Las Cruces, New Mexico

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. He is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen

Tucson Citizen

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and often writes about the American Southwest. He is a contributing editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazine, and writes for other periodicals including Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine

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, New York Times Book Review, Esquire

Esquire (magazine)

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, and Aperture

Aperture

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

United States Artists

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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
  Border Regional Library Association
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   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

External links

• The War on Drugs
• A review of Blues for Cannibals - From The New York Times
  The New York Times
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• Entrance Wound - An excerpt from Blues for Cannibals
• An Interview with Charles Bowden
• Charles Bowden articles at Byliner
• An audio interview with Charles Bowden - From American Public Media's Marketplace
• Charles Bowden on "The War Next Door" - video by Democracy Now!
  Democracy Now!
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• Charles Bowden on “Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields” - A live interview with Charles Bowden on Democracy Now!
  Democracy Now!
  Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...
  
  April 14, 2010
• NPR interview with Bowden about "Shadow in the City" on NPR's Day to Day
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  July 5, 2005
• "Charles Bowden on The War Next Door", High Country News, March 01, 2010