![]() ![]() He later returned to prose and gained some fame with his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man. After leaving the hospital he got a typewriter and began writing again-this time, poetry. He arrived in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital, hemorrhaging as a climax to a ten year drinking bout. Eighteen or twenty books of prose and poetry, Bukowski, after publishing prose in Story and Portfolio, stopped writing for ten years. Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and brought to America at the age of two. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where he is published by the great publishing houses), he is critically recognized as one of America's greatest living realist writers. Summary: These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them.
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