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Charles Bowden was an American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. His journalism appeared regularly in Harper’s GQ, and other national publications. He was the author of several books of nonfiction, including Down by the River. In more than a dozen groundbreaking books and many articles, Charles Bowden blazed a trail of fire from the deserts of the Southwest to the centers of power where abstract ideas of human nature hold sway—and to the roiling places that give such ideas the lie. He claimed as his turf "our soul history, the germinal material, vast and brooding, that is always left out of more orthodox (all of them) books about America" (Jim Harrison, on Blood Orchid ).
Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
2005
An Unnatural History of America
1995
1986
The Notes from Underground
2002
The Return of the Future
2019
Memories of the Future
1991
Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
2002
The Way Out of Juarez
2010
2001
1987
2006
2020
The Laboratory of Our Future
1998
1978
Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
2010
1989
Living in the Future
2009
1996
2010
Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey
2018
1993
1992
Work from 1970 to the Present
2007
2009
