Charles Bukowski is recognized as an international literary figure. His first poem, "Hello!," celebrating the black driver of a horse-drawn trash wagon, was published in a mimeograph magazine called Matrix in 1946, when Bukowski was twenty-six years old....

Charles Bukowski , an internationally recognized literary figure, first published a short story, "Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip," in Story magazine in 1944, when he was twenty-four years old; he began writing and publishing poetry at the age of t...

A prolific and seminal figure in underground literature, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) is best known for poetry and fiction in which he caustically indicts bourgeois society while celebrating the desperate lives of alcoholics, prostitutes, decadent writer...