Unlike most writers on Southern California, Mike Davis is a native son. He was born in Fontana in 1946 and grew up in Bostonia, a now 'lost' hamlet east of San Diego. A former meatcutter and long-distance truckdriver, he teaches urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He is co-editor of The Year Left- An American Socialist Yearbook and author of Prisoners of the American Dream. He is married with one child. A native Minnesotan, Robert Morrow finds that ice-fishing in Southern California leaves something to be desired. He has compensated by taking photographs of the rifle ranges, barbed wire, bullet-ridden police cars, derelict factories, big dogs, and other symbols of daily life in Los Angeles's suburban badlands.
