Run With the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, A

About Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and many would claim its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach Germany to an American soldier father and a German mother and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro California on March 9 1994 at the age of seventy-three shortly after completing his last novel Pulp.