movement death_date death_place influenced birth_place influences nationality name birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation
dirty realism , transgressive fiction 9 march 1994 san pedro , los angeles , u.s. tom prvoslav vujčić , anthony kiedis waits , larry brown , richard brautigan , andernach , rhineland-palatinate , germany john robinson jeffers , henry miller , d. h. lawrence , fante fyodor dostoyevsky , du fu , li bai , james thurber , knut hamsun , german-american charles bukowski 16 august 1920 charles_bukowski_smoking . jpg charles bukowski
 heinrich karl bukowski poet columnist , novelist , short story writer , and
charles bukowski

henry charles bukowski -lrb- born heinrich karl bukowski ; august 16 , 1920 -- march 9 , 1994 -rrb- was a german-born american poet , novelist , and short story writer .
his writing was influenced by the social , cultural , and economic ambience of his home city of los angeles .
his work addresses the ordinary lives of poor americans , the act of writing , alcohol , relationships with women , and the drudgery of work .
bukowski wrote thousands of poems , hundreds of short stories and six novels , eventually publishing over sixty books .
the fbi 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 bukowski 's enduring popular appeal , adam kirsch of `` the new yorker '' wrote , `` the secret of bukowski 's appeal ... that he combines the confessional poet 's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero . ''
