activist groups among the poor and working class in solving problems—as advocated by Manuel Castells and Marshall Berman. Personal life and death Davis was married to Mexican artist and professor Alessandra Moctezuma and lived in San Diego, California. Prior to his marriage to Moctezuma, he had been married and divorced four times. Davis met his first wife in SDS, who had returned from the 1964 "Freedom Summer" in Mississippi trying to organize tugboat crews. He had two children with Moctezuma, one child with his fourth wife Sophie Spalding, and one child with his third wife Brigid Loughran. Davis was diagnosed with cancer in 2020. In a July 25, 2022, story in The Los Angeles Times, Davis said, "I'm in the terminal stage of metastatic esophageal cancer but still up and around the house...But I guess what I think about the most is that I'm just extraordinarily furious and angry. If I have a regret, it's not dying in battle or at a barricade as I've always romantically imagined — you know, fighting." He died from esophageal cancer on October 25, 2022, at age 76. Awards and honors 1991: Deutscher Memorial Prize, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 1996–1997: Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute 1998: MacArthur Fellowship 2002: World History Association Book Prize, Late Victorian Holocausts 2007: Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Works Books Nonfiction Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (1986, 1999, 2018) City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990, 2006) Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (1998) Casino Zombies: True Stories From the Neon West (1999, German only) Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City (2000) Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (2001) The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas, edited with Hal Rothman (2002) Dead Cities, And Other Tales (2003) Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See, with Jim Miller and Kelly Mayhew (2003) The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu (2005) Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Working Class (2006) No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border, with Justin Akers Chacon (2006) Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007) In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against