Dorbin, Sanford M.

Sanford M. (Sandy) Dorbin was born in the Midwest ca. 1933, and received his B.A. and MLS from UCLA. The bio for his Never Enough Light describes him as "Librarian, bibliographer and teacher by training, janitor and agitator or troublemaker by inclination." He is perhaps best known for his bibliographical writings about Charles Bukowski, in particular A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969). He also is the author of several books of poetry, including Family Life and Others (1968), Persona Image / Mirror Image (1969), The Ruby Woods (1971), Eleven Poems (1978), Minimally Speaking (1987), Night Lights (1988), Never Enough Light: New and Selected Poems 1966-1994 (1995), and Saying Goodbye to Babylon (2001).

In addition to his bibliography of Charles Bukowski, Dorbin has written "Charles Bukowski and the Little Mag/Small Press Movement" (UCSB Libraries publication, Soundings, 1970) and a later "Bukowski Checklist," which appeared in a special Bukowski issue of Small Press Review (1973). During the time he was compiling the Bukowski bibliography, Dorbin also was a librarian at the UCSB Library's Department of Special Collections.

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