About The Author:
About The Author:
During the course of his long, prolific literary career, Charles Bukowski was
known as a poet, novelist, short story writer, and journalist. But it is as a
cult figure, an "honorary beat" who chronicled his notorious lifestyle in raw,
unflinching poetry and prose, that he is best remembered. Born in the aftermath
of World War I to a German mother and an American serviceman of German descent,
he was brought to the U.S. at the age of three and raised in Los Angeles. By all
accounts, his childhood was lonely and unhappy: His father beat him regularly,
and he suffered from debilitating