These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them.
He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994..
His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (Black Sparrow, 1994), Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992).
Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five.
He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.
He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator.
After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again.
His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking.
He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer.
At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. --Adam Perry, Santa Fe Reporter Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother.
They\'re about staying alive in a world where the only choice for the majority of us is to face a firing squad in an office every day--the post office, in Bukowski\'s case--or maintain a commitment to creativity as we struggle to pay for food and a meager place to live. showcase Bukowski\'s impressive narrative and creative abilities in stories that Most often take place in bars and dingy apartments but are not simply about sex and alcohol. . .
Collections such as The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983) .
In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where he is published by the great publishing houses), he is critically recognized as one of America\'s greatest realist writers.
These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them
