A Charles Bowden Chronology

• Born July 20, 1945, Joliet, Illinois

• Moved from the farm to Chicago at age 3

• 1957 Moved from Chicago to Tucson at age 12

• 1966 BA History, University of Arizona

• 1967 MA American Intellectual History, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• 1967 Field historian, Wisconsin Historical Society

• 1968–1970 Doctoral work, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• 1968 Married Zada Edgar

• 1970 Instructor, American History, University of Illinois–Chicago Circle

• 1973–1974 Researcher, University of Arizona Office of Arid Lands Studies

• 1976–1978 Grant director/NEH Grants, KUAT Television, Tucson, Arizona

• 1976 Divorced from Zada Edgar

• 1977 Killing the Hidden Waters

• 1981–1984 Reporter, Tucson Citizen

• 1981 Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big City Life (with Lewis Kreinberg)

• 1982 Married Kathleen Dannreuther

• 1986 Blue Desert

• 1986–1989 Editor-in-chief, City Magazine, Tucson

• 1987 Jesse Bowden Niwa born to Debbie Niwa and Charles Bowden

• 1987 Frog Mountain Blues (with photographs by Jack Dykinga)

• 1988 Mezcal

• 1989 Red Line

• 1989 Divorced from Kathleen Dannreuther

• 1989–2014 Freelance journalist

• 1991 Desierto: Memories of the Future

• 1992 The Sonoran Desert (with photographs by Jack Dykinga)

• 1992 Expansions (with photographs by William Lesch)

• 1993 The Secret Forest (with photographs by Jack Dykinga)

• 1993 Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions (with Michael Binstein)

• 1995 Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America

• 1996 Meets Mary Martha Miles

• 1996 Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau (with photographs by Jack Dykinga)

• 1996 Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edge (with photographs by Virgil Hancock)

• 1997 Mary Martha Miles moves to Tucson

• 1998 Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future

• 1999 Paul Dickerson, 1961–1997

• 2001 Eugene Richards 55 (with photographs by Eugene Richards)

• 2002 Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground

• 2002 Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family

• 2004 Jack Dykinga's Arizona (with Jack Dykinga)

• 2005 A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior

• 2006 Inferno (with photographs by Michael Berman)

• 2008 Exodus/Éxodo (with photographs by Julián Cardona)

• 2008 Images: Jack Dykinga's Grand Canyon (with Jack Dykinga and Wayne Ranney)

• 2009 Chuck moves to Las Cruces, New Mexico

• 2009 Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future

• 2009 Trinity (with photographs by Michael Berman)

• 2010 Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

• 2010 Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez (with drawings by Alice Leora Briggs)

• 2010 The Charles Bowden Reader (edited by Erin Almeranti and Mary Martha Miles)

• 2011 El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin (with Molly Molloy)

• 2014 Blood on the Corn (with Molly Molloy)

• August 30, 2014 Charles Bowden dies in Las Cruces, New Mexico

• 2018 The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey

• 2018 Grand Canyon: A Photographer's Favorite Viewpoints (with Jack Dykinga and Wayne Ranney)

• 2019 Dakotah: The Return of the Future

• Forthcoming: Banjo, Go for Broke, Jericho, Leave the Heart, Rhapsody, and Sonata. These are manuscript titles and may change for publication.