- Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer
| Born: | 16 August 1920 Comment | | When did Charles Bukowski die? / Died | 09 March 1994 | | How many years did Charles Bukowski live? / Lived | 73 years | | Zodiac sign: | Leo |
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Charles Bukowski facts
- His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles
- His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work
- Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books
- The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, in the LA underground newspaper Open City
- In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife"
- Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal
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- [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero
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