Description: A collection of fifty inspiring reflections on the life and work of award-winning writer Charles Bowden, with contributors who include his editors, collaborators, and admiring writers--and a coda from Bowden himself.
Brief description: Bill Broyles, a research associate at the University of Arizona's Southwest Center, is coauthor of Among Unknown Tribes, Desert Duty, and Sunshot.
Review Quotes: Bowden's impact, both on Southwest letters and on the national conversation about the borderlands, is clearly evident in this collection of 50 essays...[America's Most Alarming Writer] is not simply a recounting of shared incidents in an eventful life, nor is it just an assessment of a remarkable body of work. Importantly, it is a revealing document about a fiercely driven investigative journalist's relentless pursuit of the truth in the face of a society too willing to look the other way.-- "Arizona Daily Star" (2/2/2020 12:00:00 AM)