Charles Bukowski (1920–1994)
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About the Author
Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany, on August 16, 1920. He came to the United States with his parents when he was three years old and spent his early years in poverty. As a young man he was a transient, doing odd jobs. He lived most of his live in boarding houses in the Los Angeles show more area. He attended Los Angeles City College briefly. He worked for the United States Postal Service for about ten years. Bukowski was at home with street people and his work contains a brutal realism and graphic imagery. He began publishing short stories in the mid-1940s. Starting with Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail in 1959, he produced poetry collections almost once a year. His following had grown by the time his collection of poetry about down-and-outers titled It Catches My Heart in Its Hands appeared in 1963. His short story collections include Dirty Old Man and Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. His novels, with an autobiographical character called Henry Chinaski, include Post Office and Factotum. Bukowski wrote the screenplay for the 1987 motion picture Barfly. He later wrote about the filming of Barfly in his novel, Hollywood. Bukowski died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Charles Bukowski
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979) 614 copies
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (Bukowski Stories) (1967) 430 copies
Penguin Modern Poets 13: Charles Bukowski, Philip Lamantia, Harold Norse (1969) — Author — 63 copies
Quando Eravamo Giovani: Quando Eravamo Giovani: Poesie (Universale Economica) (Italian Edition) (2000) 24 copies
Escritos de un viejo indecente, La maquina de follar y Erecciones, eyaculaciones, exhibiciones (2015) 17 copies
The Charles Bukowski Tapes 7 copies
King of Poets 6 copies
SPARROW 30: Africa, Paris, Greece 5 copies
Sobre o Amor - Formato Convencional 5 copies
As Buddah Smiles 4 copies
Elms Lesters Celebrates Charles Bukowski — Author — 4 copies
The Laughing Heart 4 copies
Toca el piano como un instrumento de percusión hasta que los dedos te empeincen a sangrar un poco (Visor de… (2014) 4 copies
Los días corren como caballos salvajes por las montañas (Visor de Poesía) (Spanish Edition) (2014) 4 copies
Pink Silks 3 copies
LAST STRAW (DVD) 3 copies
To Lean Back Into It (NYG 1998) 3 copies
Anthology of L.A. poets, 3 copies
A Mulher Mais Linda da Cidade e Outras Historias - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2016) 3 copies
Ham on Rye (Flyer No. 8) 3 copies
Three More By Bukowski 3 copies
Traz teu amor pra mim 3 copies
The New Censorship Vol. 3 No. 1 3 copies
Listonosz 3 copies
439 Gedichte: Eine Kinoreklame in der Wüste /Western Avenue /Gedichte aus dem Nachlass (2009) 3 copies
SPARROW 54: Maybe Tomorrow 3 copies
The Simple Truth (NYG 2002) 3 copies
70 minutes in hell 3 copies
Niente canzoni d'amore 2 copies
Bring Me Your Love (Flyer No. 11) 2 copies
The Bluebird 2 copies
A NEW YEARS GREETING 1986 2 copies
Upon This Most Delivate Profession 2 copies
Roll the Dice (poster) — Author — 2 copies
Factotum (Flyer No. 7) 2 copies
Self Portrait of Inner Man 2 copies
be cool, fool 2 copies
A Conversation Not to Remember 2 copies
There's No Business (Flyer No. 12) 2 copies
Art 2 copies
Crônicas de um amor louco 2 copies
Short Stories of Charles Bukowski 2 copies
The Devil Was Hot 2 copies
Storm for the Living and the Dead 2 copies
Bukowski Poems & Insults! (CD) 2 copies
Kediler 2 copies
100 Poemas 2 copies
Si prega di allegare 2 copies
A New War (NYG 1997) 2 copies
A Love Poem 2 copies
Med det hele - Hollywood Kvinder 2 copies
I Saw A Tramp Last Night 2 copies
Nachtschicht und versoffene Tage 2 copies
Sretan slučaj 1 copy
Mannequins 1 copy
Kaputt in der City 1 copy
Hino da Tormenta 1 copy
O piću 1 copy
Il crimine paga sempre 1 copy
A Couple of Wings 1 copy
Đavo je bio vruć 1 copy
Buke dhe Sallam 1 copy
Bludni sin 1 copy
Success? 1 copy
SASE - handwritten envelope 1 copy
Hot Water Music - BSP flyer 1 copy
Signed photo - Buk 1 copy
Dnevnik 1991-1993 1 copy
Alter Alter Almanacco 1984 Supplemento 13 California — Author — 1 copy
CARTAS DEL YAGÉ 1 copy
Burlesque 1 copy
נשים 1 copy
ספרות זולה : PULP 1 copy
The Return of the Left in Post-Communist States: Current Trends and Future Prospects (Studies of Communism in… (1999) 1 copy
Bukowski essencial 1 copy
La Senda del perdedor 1 copy
55 POEZI 1 copy
Tempestade Para os Vivos e Para os Mortos - Poemas Ineditos e Dispersos (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 1 copy
Básně 1 copy
The Captain Is Out to Lunch( The Crowley Family Journey of Strength Hope and Joy)[CAPTAIN IS OUT TO LUNCH][Paperback] (2002) 1 copy
Broadside from Black Sparrow Press announcing The days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. 1 copy
Audio Files 1 copy
Stories und Romane 1 copy
Seduto nel bordo del letto 1 copy
Histórias de Loucura Normal 1 copy
Los Angeles 462-0614: poesie 1 copy
Bukowski Charles 1 copy
Flower Fist and Bestial Wail 1 copy
Blow 6 1 copy
Delírios Cotidianos 1 copy
Jaggernaut: A Short Story. 1 copy
L'incendio di un sogno 1 copy
Romane und Stories 1 copy
Bukowski poems (in Bangla) 1 copy
Poems And Drawings 1 copy
Solid Citizen 1 copy
You Don't Know 1 copy
Duivelstoejager 1 copy
What They Want 1 copy
Three Poems 1 copy
Sıcak su müziği 1 copy
Letters to Beat Scene 1 copy
SPARROW 72: We'll Take Them 1 copy
A Working Stiff 1 copy
Talking to My Mailbox 1 copy
Min Oskuld & Pearl Harbor. 1 copy
Short Stories 1 copy
Second Coming 1 copy
Relentless as the Tarantula 1 copy
Afternoons into night 1 copy
Another Academy 1 copy
Cartas na Mesa 1 copy
The Curtains Are Waving 1 copy
Son of Satan 1 copy
Antología 1 copy
Absolutely Live 1 copy
462-0614 1 copy
CRAZY LOVE(DVD) 1 copy
Ljubav i ludilo u LA 1 copy
U čemu je problem gospodo 1 copy
14 intervjua 1 copy
Love Poem to Marina. 1 copy
The outsider 1 copy
Pansiyon Manzumeleri 1 copy
Night work 1 copy
Bukowski reads Bukowski 1 copy
The poet's muse 1 copy
You kissed Lilly 1 copy
Všechny řitě světa i ta má 1 copy
Poem for Dante 1 copy
Pył 1 copy
Kid Stardust im Schlachthof 1 copy
Das Schlimmste kommt noch 1 copy
Horsemeat Pferdefleisch 1 copy
Associated Works
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributor — 182 copies
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributor — 29 copies
De mooiste verhalen van James Baldwin, John Berger, Jorge Luis Borges, Jane Bowles, Joseph Brodsky, Charles Bukowski,… (1990) — Contributor — 7 copies
Editor's Choice II: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press, 1978-1983 (Contemporary Anthology Series) (1987) — Contributor — 6 copies
Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Contributor — 6 copies
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Outsider No 2 — Contributor — 3 copies
X-Ray No. 7 — Contributor — 3 copies
The Wormwood Review No. 120 — Contributor — 2 copies
The Wormwood Review No. 24 — Cover artist; Contributor — 2 copies
The Outsider No 3 — Contributor — 2 copies
Second Coming, Volume 5, Number 1 — Contributor — 2 copies
The New York quarterly : NYQ : Number 34, Fall 1987 — Contributor — 1 copy
Nomad Poetry Journal No. 1 — Contributor — 1 copy
Beatitude 16 — Contributor — 1 copy
Mr. Clean and Other Poems — Introduction, some editions — 1 copy
Hearse 2: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead — Contributor — 1 copy
The New York quarterly : NYQ : Number 35, Spring 1988 — Contributor — 1 copy
The New York quarterly : NYQ : Number 36, Summer 1988 — Contributor — 1 copy
X-Ray, No. 10 — Contributor — 1 copy
Hearse #10, 1969 — Contributor — 1 copy
Hearse 4: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead — Contributor — 1 copy
3 Matchbooks — Author — 1 copy
Out Of Sight *90: A Primer of Domestic Poetry — Contributor — 1 copy
Cerberus: A Magazine of SF Writings, Vol.1 No.1 (Fall 1977) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Bukowski, Charles
- Legal name
- Bukowski, Heinrich Karl
Bukowski, Henry Charles - Other names
- Chinaski, Henry (alter-ego)
- Birthdate
- 1920-08-16
- Date of death
- 1994-03-09
- Burial location
- Green Hills Memorial Park, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
Germany (born) - Birthplace
- Andernach, Prussia, Weimar Germany
- Place of death
- San Pedro, California, USA
- Cause of death
- leukemia
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Education
- Los Angeles High School
Los Angeles City College - Occupations
- novelist
poet
short story writer
columnist - Relationships
- Bukowski, Linda (wife)
Bukowski, Marina (daughter) - Organizations
- United States Postal Service
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