Charles Bowden is the author of twenty-two books including A SHADOW IN THE CITY: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior; DOWN BY THE RIVER: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family, a New York Times Notable Book for 2003; BLUES FOR CANNIBALS: The Notes From Underground; JUÁREZ: The Laboratory of Our Future; BLOOD ORCHID: An Unnatural History of America; DESIERTO: Memories of the Future ; RED LINE; BLUE DESERT; and TRUST ME: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions, with Michael Binstein. INFERNO, the first of a trilogy, was a finalist for the Orion Book of the Year for 2007, with photographer Michael Berma. EXODUS(2008, University of Texas Press), with photographer Julian Cardona follows, and his most recent book, TRINITY, with Michael Berman, is the third book of the trilogy, with University of Texas Press scheduled to publish in Spring 2009.

A SHADOW IN THE CITY and DOWN BY THE RIVER are both in development as feature films. His next book SOME OF THE DEAD ARE STILL BREATHING: Living in the Future will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2009.

He is a correspondent for GQ magazine, and his work has appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, National Geographic and Esquire. A Pulitzer Prize Nominee, winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, he lives in Tucson, Arizona with a standard poodle, a desert tortoise, and a witch.