"Henry Charles Bukowski (a.k.a. Heinrich Karl Bukowski, 1920-1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambiance of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addressed the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The F.B.I. kept a file on him as a result of his column 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man' in the LA underground newspaper 'Open City'.
In 1986 'Time' called Bukowski a 'laureate of American lowlife'. Regarding his enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote: 'the secret of Bukowski's appeal is that he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero'.
Since his death from Leukemia in 1994, he has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about his life and writings, despite his work having received little attention from academics in America during his lifetime. In contrast, he enjoyed extraordinary fame in Europe, especially in Germany, the place of his birth."
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