Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary
writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most
influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach,
Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and
brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in
Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San
Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three,
shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.
Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie
fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of
Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the
Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.
"There is real poignancy in the people encountered in Bukowski's work." -- New York Times Book Review"The poet laureate of sour alleys and dark bars, of racetracks and long shots." -- Washington Post"A prolific poet . . . a popular, accessible, and yes, great artist." -- Washington Post Book World"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles." -- Joyce Carol Oates"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels." -- Leonard Cohen
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