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Charles Clyde Bowden (July 20, 1945 – August 30, 2014) was an American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico.[1]

Charles Bowden
Born(1945-07-20)July 20, 1945
Joliet, Illinois, U.S.
DiedAugust 30, 2014(2014-08-30) (aged 69)
Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.
OccupationWriter, journalist
AwardsLannan Literary Award for Nonfiction

Background


He attended the University of Arizona and then the University of Wisconsin, where he obtained his master's degree in American intellectual history; while there he walked out as he was defending his dissertation for his doctorate, annoyed by the questions asked him by the review committee.[2] He was a writer for the Tucson Citizen and often wrote about the American Southwest. He was a contributing editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazine,[3] and he wrote for other periodicals, including Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, High Country News, and Aperture.

Bowden was the winner of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction,[1] the PEN Center USA’s First Amendment Award in 2011, and a 2010 award from United States Artists.[4][5] He grew up in Chicago but lived most of his life in Tucson, Arizona.[6] He was known for his writings on the situation at the US–Mexico border and wrote often about the effects of the War on Drugs on the lives of the people in that region.[2]

He died in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on August 30, 2014, after a brief illness. He was survived by his son and two siblings.[2] He left a number of manuscripts that are being published posthumously by The Bowden Publishing Project, which is also reissuing some of his earlier books.[7][8][9] His work and life were the subject of the Spring 2019 special issue of Journal of the Southwest,[10] and a related book, America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden.[11]


Selected works



References


  1. Diaz, Alex. "Charles Bowden – Lannan Foundation". www.lannan.org. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  2. Yardley, William (2014-09-03). "Charles Bowden, Author With Unblinking Eye on Southwest, Dies at 69". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  3. "Charles Bowden". motherjones. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  4. "United States Artists Official Website". Archived from the original on November 10, 2010.
  5. Lee, Kurtis (August 31, 2014). "Charles Bowden dies at 69; author known for writing on border issues". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
  6. Grant, Richard. "A Sense of Chuck". Aeon (digital magazine). Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  7. "The Bowden Publishing Project". The University of Texas Press. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  8. Paskus, Laura (March 5, 2020). "The endless search for Charles Bowden: A longtime Bowden reader remembers the complicated author through two new books". High Country News. 52.
  9. Enzinna, Wes (August 2020). "Desert Blues: Charles Bowden's borderlands (review)". Harper's Magazine. 341 (2043): 84–88.
  10. Broyles, Bill; Dinges, Bruce J., eds. (2019). "Special Issue on Chuck Bowden" (PDF). Journal of the Southwest. 61 (1).
  11. Broyles, Bill; Dinges, Bruce J., eds. (2019). America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-4773-1990-1.
  12. "Torch Song | Harper's Magazine – Part 2". Harper's Magazine. 1998-08-01. Retrieved 2020-05-01.

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