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Charles Bukowski, by Graziano Origa, 2008
Charles Bukowski (16 August 1920 - 9 March 1994) was a German-American novelist and poet. The bulk of his writing focuses on his everyday life as a working-class alcoholic in Los Angeles. Even though his work is minimalistic and often crude, he created many a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, such as his poems "Bluebird," "Nirvana," and "Dinosauria, We," as well as a few of the stories in Notes of a Dirty Old Man, a collection of short pieces which originally appeared as a column in two local underground newspapers. Bukowski died in 1994 at the age of 73.
Works written by Charles Bukowski include:
- Post Office (1971)
- Factotum (1975)
- Women (1978)
- Ham on Rye (1982)
- Hollywood (1989)
- Pulp (1994)
Charles Bukowski provides examples of the following tropes:
- The Alcoholic[context?]
- Artistic Stimulation[context?]
- Beige Prose[context?]
- Cluster F-Bomb[context?]
- Creator Breakdown[context?]
- The Gambler[context?]