John Bowe (author)

John Bowe (born 1964 in Minnesota) is an American author. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times. He has also written for The New Yorker, The American Prospect, GQ, McSweeney's, and This American Life. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Basquiat with Julian Schnabel.

He graduated from Minneapolis' Blake School in 1982, obtained an honors BA in English from the University of Minnesota in 1987 and earned an MFA in film from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1996.

Bowe appeared on The Daily Show on September 24, 2007 to talk about his book Nobodies, which examines slavery in modern America.

Us: Americans Talk About Making Love is a selection of oral histories about sex. John Bowe collaborated with a team of interviewers and co-editors to record and collect the love stories of a diverse range of U.S citizens.

Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy is an examination of modern slavery in the United States, focusing particularly upon the widening gap between rich and poor, both in the US and globally, and what this means for notions of freedom in an era of “free trade”.

"Nobodies" first started as an article by John Bowe published in 2003 for both The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal.Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor And the Dark Side of the New Global Economy was turned into a book and published in September 2007.

This book follows Bowe's journey and dangerous research, exclusive interviews, and eyewitness accounts; Nobodies takes readers inside three illegal workplaces where foreign employees are enslaved. This book exposes the subcontract, corporate duplicity, immigration fraud, and sleights of hand that allow forced labor to continue in the United States.

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