Charles Bowden
Charles Bowden writes passionately about the environment and social issues in his native Arizona and the U.S. Southwest.
Charles Bowden is a non-fiction author, journalist, and essayist who writes about the environment and social issues along the U.S.-Mexico border. An outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s, he is the author of 14 books including A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Dog; Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family; Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future, for which he won a 1996 Lannan Award; Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America; Desierto: Memories of the Future; Red Line; Blue Desert; and (with Michael Binstein) Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions. Based in Tucson, Arizona, he is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen. Bowden also writes for magazines including Esquire, Harper’s, New York Times Book Review, GQ and Mother Jones.