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Charles Bukowski was born on August 16, 1920 in Andernach, Germany, the son of a US soldier and German woman. His family immigrated to the United States in 1922 and settled in Los Angeles, where Bukowski spent most of his life. After a brief marriage to Barbara Frye, the rich publisher of a small poetry magazine, Bukowski began in 1958 twelve years of work as a Post Office clerk. In 1955 Bukowski began writing poetry, publishing volumes almost annually. His first collection, Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail, appeared in 1959. Bukowski's first volume of prose, All Assholes in the World and Mine, was published seven years later. By 1963, the year Bukowski published It Catches My Heart in Its Hands, Bukowski had a loyal following, and was famous for his use of violent images and graphic language in his work. His column Notes of a Dirty Old Man appeared regularly in Open City and Los Angeles Free Press, and its run was later collected in book by the same title (1969). In 1970 Bukowski quit his job with the Postal Service when John Martin of the Black Sparrow Press offered him a $100 monthly stipend to continue his writing. Although prolific, Bukowski remained a literary outsider who published his works with small presses, primarily on the West Coast. In 1973 Bukowski gained wider audience when an award-winning television documentary by Taylor Hackford was shown. The 1983 film Tales of Ordinary Madness, directed by Marco Ferreri, was based on stories of the author. The screenplay for the film Barfly (1987) was written by Bukowski himself and directed by Barbet Schroeder. In 1985 Bukowski married Linda Lee Beighle, a health food proprietor twenty-five years his junior, and had one daughter, Marina Louise. Charles Bukowski died at age 73 on March 9, 1994, at a hospital in San Pedro, California, after almost year-long bout with leukemia.

From the description of Charles Bukowski Collection, 1944-1981. (San Leandro Community Library). WorldCat record id: 47954880

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