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Charles Bowden is a non-fiction writer and journalist. He received degrees from the University of Arizona and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Currently a freelance writer for several periodicals including Esquire, Harpers, Mother Jones, GQ, and National Geographic, Bowden was also a reporter for the Tucson Daily Citizen (1981–84), and the creator, editor, and co-publisher of Tucson’s City Magazine (1985–89). He has published a series of books about the ecology of the Southwest and several others about the secret war on drugs and the U.S./Mexico border, most recently Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields (2010). Bowden co-produced the documentary film, El Sicario Room 164, which played at the Venice Film Festival in 2010.
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Charles Bowden passed away in 2014.
Donor -This award was generously supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 07.08.2024