Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) for marilyn m. LINKS buk's page http://realbeer.com/buk/ This site, which is maintained by two of Bukowski's fans, includes a biography of Bukowski, a list of his books, and an extensive list of related links. BIOGRAPHY Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) Born in Germany and brought to the United States when he was two, Bukowski attended Los Angeles City College (1939–1941), then moved to New York to pursue a writing career. In 1946, he gave up writing and spent a decade traveling around the world. He returned to Los Angeles and began writing for the underground press, gaining popularity largely through word of mouth. His first volume of poetry, Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wall (1959), deals with the themes that were to occupy him throughout his career: the sense of a desolate, abandoned, and absurd world. His prolific output includes, besides journalism and essays, more than forty volumes of poems, novels, and stories. Collections of poems include War All the Time: Poems 1981–1984 (1984) and Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills (1993). Among his novels and story collections are Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1973) and The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, and Other Stories (1983). Bukowski also wrote the screenplay for the film Barfly (1987).