Charles Clyde Bowden was an American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was best known for his work documenting violence on the Mexico-United States border, especially in and around Ciudad Juarez.

Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America
1995
ISBN 9781477316849
Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
2010
ISBN 9781568584492
Thirty-Year Plan
2012
ISBN 9781935713067
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future
2009
ISBN 9780151013951
The Charles Bowden Reader
2010
ISBN 9780292721982
Red Caddy
2020
ISBN 9781477315798
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
2011
ISBN 9781568586588