When Abel Debritto first started researching and writing about Charles Bukowski, he knew that the prolific underground poet, short story writer and novelist, who had written thousands of poems in ...

Charles Bukowski – the “laureate of American lowlife” – remains a divisive figure more than 20 years after his death. His belligerent and blackly comic novels, stories and poems cast an ...

Howard Sounes, author of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, explained: “He became sentimental about cats in his old age. When he made a bit of money, he lived the suburban ...

'20 Years After: The Charles Bukowski Memorial Gathering' at King Eddy Saloon will have readings by Dan Fante, S.A. Griffin, Suzanne Lummis, Joan Jobe Smith and Fred Voss.

LOS ANGELES — Charles Bukowski, the prolific writer and poet laureate of Los Angeles low-life whose rough-hewn autobiographical poems, short stories, novels and 1987 film “Barfly” chronicled ...

Charles Bukowski, 73, a street poet, novelist and screenwriter who wallowed in alcohol and other forms of degradation in his life and his literature, died of pneumonia Wednesday at a hospital ...

VITALE: Charles Bukowski told me his acquaintances called him Hank. He said he didn't have any friends. He died in San Pedro of leukemia in 1994 at the age of 73. For NPR News, I'm Tom Vitale.