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BIOGRAPHY

Charles M. Blow has been a New York Times Opinion columnist since 2008.

He joined The New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper’s graphics director. He has also worked at National Geographic and The Detroit News.

Blow is the author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which was released in September 2014. He graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a B.A. in mass communications. He lives in Brooklyn and has three children.

photograph: © Beowulf Sheehan. Reproduced with permission.

Primary Contributions (2)

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Stories

Where Bonnie and Clyde died—and still live on

It is a strange thing to grow up in a town marked by killers and killing, a town in flight from its own infamy. I grew up in just such a place. A hamlet of hundreds, Gibsland, Louisiana, was not known for much until when, on May 23, 1934, Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow, the…

A Teen Girl Recalls Juneteenth in the 1950s

Publications (2)

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto (January 2021)

By Charles M Blow

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor's Choice From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action, "a must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated poisons of systemic racism and white supremacy" (San Francisco Chronicle). Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is not to impose a new racial...

Fire Shut Up in My Bones (September 2015)

By Charles M. Blow

A New York Times Notable Book | Lambda Literary Award Winner | Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award “Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age.” — Washington Blade “[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting.” — New York TimesUniversally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering journalist’s indelible coming-of-age tale. Charles M. Blow’s mother was a fiercely driven woman...